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My times are in Your hand; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
Psalms 31:15 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • BSB My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
  • NKJV My times are in Your hand; Deliver 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 1:7He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.
  • John 17:1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
  • Eccl 3:1–8For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
  • John 7:6Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
  • Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
  • Job 24:1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
  • Ps 17:8–9Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
  • 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
  • Ps 143:9Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
  • Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
  • 2 Sam 7:12When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
  • 1 Sam 26:10David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
  • Ps 17:13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
  • Ps 71:10–12For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
  • Acts 27:24saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
  • 2 Pet 1:14knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
  • Luke 9:51It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem,
  • John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  • Jer 15:20–21I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.
  • Ps 116:15Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.
  • John 12:27“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
  • John 7:30They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
  • Ps 143:12In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.
  • Acts 23:11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 31:15 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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