Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
- KJV Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
- NKJV Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass.
- NASB Commit your way to the Lord, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
- NLT Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.
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Quick answer
David urges us to commit our way to the Lord and trust Him, confident that He will act. We entrust our plans and burdens to God's faithful hands.
Overview
To 'commit your way' is to roll one's path and cares onto the Lord, trusting Him to bring things to a good end. The verse pairs entrusting with trusting, and promises decisive divine action: 'he will do this.' Such confident casting of cares on God is echoed in 1 Peter 5:7, resting in the Father who cares for us through Christ.
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Cross-references · 12
- Prov 16:3Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be achieved.
- 1 Pet 5:7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
- Phil 4:6–7Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Ps 55:22Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Jas 4:15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
- Job 22:28Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
- Luke 12:29–30And do not be concerned about what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it.
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- Lam 3:37Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- Luke 12:22Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
- Eccl 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
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