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Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

Psalms 31:1 - 24 (ESV) Psalm 31Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit 31 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.   1oFor ver. 1-3, see Ps. 71:1-3In you, O Lord, do I pSee Ps. 11:1take refuge; qver. 17let me never be put to shame; in your rPs. 143:1righteousness deliver me! 2Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be sSee Ps. 18:2a rock of t[Ps. 91:2]refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!   3For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your uSee Ps. 23:3name’s sake you lead me and guide me; 4you vPs. 25:15take me out of wSee Job 18:8the net they have hidden for me, for you are my xPs. 43:2refuge. 5yCited Luke 23:46; [Acts 7:59]Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, zDeut. 32:4faithful God.   6I aPs. 26:5hate[B]Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate those who pay bJonah 2:8regard to worthless cDeut. 32:21; Jer. 8:19; 14:22idols, but I trust in the Lord. 7I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have dSee Ps. 1:6known the distress of my soul, 8and you have not e[Deut. 32:30]delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in fSee Job 36:16a broad place.   9Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am gPs. 66:14in distress; hSee Ps. 6:7my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. 10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and iPs. 6:2; 32:3; 38:3; 102:3my bones waste away.   11Because of all my adversaries I have become j[Ps. 41:7, 8; Isa. 53:3]a reproach, especially to my kSee Job 19:13, 14neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street l[Matt. 26:56; Mark 14:50]flee from me. 12I have been mPs. 88:5; Eccles. 9:5forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like nIsa. 30:14a broken vessel. 13For I oJer. 20:10hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— p[Matt. 27:1]; See 2 Sam. 17:1-4as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.   14But I qver. 1, 6trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.” 15My r1 Chr. 29:30; Job 24:1times are in your hand; sPs. 7:1rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! 16tSee Ps. 4:6Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! 17O Lord, uver. 1let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go v1 Sam. 2:9; [Ps. 94:17; 115:17]silently to Sheol. 18Let the lying lips be mute, which w[Jude 15]speak xPs. 17:10insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.   19Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, yPs. 23:5in the sight of the children of mankind! 20In zSee Ps. 32:7the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you aSee Ps. 27:5store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.   21Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously bPs. 17:7shown his steadfast love to me when I was in c[1 Sam. 23:7]a besieged city. 22I had said in my dPs. 116:11; [2 Sam. 15:14]alarm,[C]Or in my haste “I am eIsa. 38:11, 12; Lam. 3:54cut off from fJonah 2:4your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.   23Love the Lord, all you his gPs. 30:4saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly hDeut. 32:41repays the one who acts in pride. 24iSee Ps. 27:14Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the Lord!   Psalms 31:1 - 24 (ESV)