[3] Semitic scholar Paul Haupt suggests that it may mean "restricted by the meter", or "conformed to poetical measure".

[3] The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox Church and Protestant liturgies.

The psalmist has sought refuge in Yahweh his sovereign Lord, and supreme welfare (v. 1-2); whose good pleasure is in His saints (v. 3).

[11] In the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 16 is appointed to be read on the morning of the third day of the month.

[12] Heinrich Schütz wrote a setting of a metric paraphrase of Psalm 16 in German, "Bewahr mich, Gott, ich trau auf dich", SWV 112, for the Becker Psalter, published first in 1628.