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Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalms 31:5 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
  • BSB Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
  • NKJV Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
  • NASB Into Your hand I entrust my spirit; You have redeemed me, Lord, God of truth.
  • NLT I entrust my spirit into your hand. Rescue me, Lord, for you are a faithful God.

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Quick answer

David commits his spirit into God's hand, trusting the Lord who redeems, the God of truth. It is a supreme expression of entrusting oneself to God.

Overview

This entrusting of his spirit became the very words Christ spoke on the cross as He died. David rests his whole life in the hands of the faithful, redeeming God. The verse models complete surrender to God's care in life and death, fulfilled and hallowed by Jesus.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Luke 23:46And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
  • Acts 7:59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
  • Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
  • Ps 71:23My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
  • 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
  • Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
  • Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • Isa 50:2Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
  • 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
  • Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • Gen 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
  • Heb 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  • Ps 130:8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
  • Lev 25:48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
  • 2 Tim 2:13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

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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 31:5 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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