Psalms

Chapter 31

Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

This psalm entrusts life entirely to the LORD, asking for rescue, guidance, and deliverance from nets, enemies, and shame. It moves through confidence, anguish, renewed trust, and public exhortation, holding together the famous surrender of spirit into God's hands with the conviction that God's goodness is stored up for those who fear him.

Psalm 31 is a sustained prayer of refuge under pressure. It shows that trust in God does not erase grief, slander, or fear, but it does relocate a person's times, life, and future into the LORD's hands, ending in strong consolation for all who wait for him.

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Psalms 31

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Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

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F¹or the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. ²Incline Your ear to me; ³For You are my rock and my fortress; ⁴You free me from the net laid out for me, ⁵Into Your hands I commit my spirit; ⁶I hate those who cling to worthless idols, ⁷I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, ⁸You have not delivered me to the enemy;

⁹Be merciful to me, O LORD, ¹⁰For my life is consumed with grief ¹¹Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, ¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. ¹³For I hear the slander of many;

¹⁴But I trust in You, O LORD; ¹⁵My times are in Your hands; ¹⁶Make Your face shine on Your servant; ¹⁷O LORD, let me not be ashamed, ¹⁸May lying lips be silenced —

¹⁹How great is Your goodness ²⁰You hide them in the secret place of Your presence ²¹Blessed be the LORD, ²²In my alarm I said, ²³Love the LORD, all His saints. ²⁴Be strong and courageous,

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01vv. 1-24Into Your Hands I Commit My SpiritDavid asks the LORD to be his refuge, rock, and fortress, committing his spirit into God's hand and rejoicing in covenant love. The psalm then descends into grief, social rejection, and plots of enemies before rising again into direct trust that his times are in God's hands, celebrating God's hidden goodness and concluding with a call for all the saints to love the LORD and be strong while waiting for him.