The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 31 -

Into your hands I commend my spirit

(Luke 23:44-49)

Yahweh, I have come to you to be protected; do not allow me to be defeated and disgraced. Since you always do what is fair, rescue me!

Listen to me, and save me right now! Be like a huge rock on which I can be safe and like a strong fort in which I will be secure.

Yes, you are like my huge rock and my fort; guide me and lead me because I worship you.

You are the one who protects me, so keep me from falling into the hidden traps that my enemies have set for me.

Yahweh, you are a God whom I can trust, so I put myself into your care because you will rescue me.

Yahweh, I hate those who worship useless idols, but I trust in you.

I will be very glad because you faithfully love me. You see me when I have been afflicted, and you know when I have had troubles.

You have not allowed my enemies to capture me; instead, you have rescued me from danger.

But now, Yahweh, act kindly toward me because I am distressed. Because I cry so much, I cannot see well, and I am completely exhausted.

I have become very weak because I am so miserable; my life is getting shorter. I have become weak because of all my troubles; even my bones are becoming weaker.

All of my enemies make fun of me, and even my neighbors despise me. Even my friends are afraid of me because they think that you are punishing me. When they see me on the streets, they run away.

People have forgotten me like they forget people who are dead. They think I am as useless as a broken pot.

I have heard people slandering me, and they have terrified me. My enemies are making plans to kill me.

But Yahweh, I trust in you. I say confidently that you are the God I worship.

My whole life is in your hands; save me from my enemies, from those who pursue me.

Act kindly toward me and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.

Yahweh, I call out to you, so do not allow others to disgrace me. I wish that wicked people may be disgraced; I wish that they may go down to the place where the people are silent and dead.

I wish that you may cause people who tell lies to be unable to speak. Do that to people who are proud and to those who arrogantly accuse others.

You have stored up many great and good things to do for those who have great respect for you. You do good things for those who go to you to be protected; everyone sees you doing that.

You hide people in your presence where it is safe, and you protect them from others who plot to kill them. You hide them in safe places where their enemies cannot speak evil at them.

Praise Yahweh! When my enemies surrounded the city in which I was living, he showed me wonderfully that he faithfully loves me.

I was afraid and cried out in a hurry, “I have been separated from Yahweh!” but you heard me and answered my cry for help.

You people who belong to Yahweh, love him! He protects those who are loyal to him, but he punishes the proud; he punishes them severely as they deserve.

You who confidently expect Yahweh to do great things for you, be strong and be courageous!

Into your hands I commend my spirit

(Luke 23:44-49)

In you, LORD, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

But I trust in you, LORD. I said, “You are my God.”

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.(a)

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.

Footnotes

(a)31:17 Sheol is the place of the dead.