Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Parallel translations
- WEB Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:
- BSB Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- 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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- Prov 16:3Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
- 1 Pet 5:7Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
- Phil 4:6–7Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
- Matt 6:25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
- Ps 55:22Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
- Jas 4:15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
- Job 22:28Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
- Luke 12:29–30And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
- Ps 22:8He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Lam 3:37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
- Luke 12:22And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
- Eccl 9:1For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
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