Into Your hand I entrust my spirit; You have redeemed me, Lord, God of truth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
- KJV Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD 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.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 15
- Luke 23:46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
- Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
- Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
- Ps 71:23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
- 1 Pet 1:18–19knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t 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 stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
- Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
- Gen 48:16the angel who has 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. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Ps 130:8He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
- Lev 25:48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
- 2 Tim 2:13If we are faithless, he remains faithful. For he can’t deny himself.”
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