Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 16:3

3. But to the Saints that are in the Earth , and to the excellent in whom is all my delight .

(i. e.) But my goodness extendeth, which is easily understood out of the former Verse: From which also there may be fetched another Supplement. O my Soul, thou hast said, to the Saints, &c.

(i. e.) To those holy and righteous Persons that live upon Earth with me: To these only or principally my goodness is extended. Because I cannot reach thee, I indeavour to pay a singular Respect and Love, and Kindness to all Saints, for thy sake whose Friends and Servants they are, and whose image they bear. This may seem more properly to agree to David, than to Christ, whose goodness was principally designed for, and imparted to Sinners, and did not find men Saints, but make them so; nor was it confined to them, that lived with him upon the Earth, but extended to all the Believers of all Ages before and after him.

Or, the magnificent, or mighty, or honourable, to wit, the Saints, as he now called them, whom, because they were mean and despicable in the Eyes of the World, he honours with their just Titles, and by appropriating them to the Saints he sufficiently intimates that all other men how great sover, are but ignoble and vile Persons, as he had called them, Psal. 15. 4.

(i. e.) Whose Company and Conversation is most Pleasant and desirable to me▪ Compare Psal. 119. 63.