My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
Parallel translations
- WEB My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
- KJV My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
- NKJV My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from those who persecute me.
- NASB My times are in Your hand; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
- NLT My future is in your hands. Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly.
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Quick answer
David affirms that his times are in God's hand and asks for deliverance from his enemies. It rests his whole life under God's sovereign care.
Overview
Declaring 'my times are in your hand' surrenders the timing and course of his life to God's control. This confidence frees him to ask boldly for rescue. Knowing our days are held by a sovereign, loving God gives peace in the face of persecution.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 24
- Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- John 17:1When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- Eccl 3:1–8To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
- Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
- Job 24:1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- Ps 17:8–9Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
- Ps 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- 2 Sam 7:12And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 1 Sam 26:10David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
- Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,
- Ps 71:10–12For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,
- Acts 27:24and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’
- 2 Pet 1:14because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
- Luke 9:51As the day of His ascension approached, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
- John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- Jer 15:20–21Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
- Ps 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
- John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
- John 7:30So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
- Ps 143:12And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.
- Acts 23:11The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about Me in Jerusalem, so also you must testify in Rome.”
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