Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.
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.
- 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.
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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 your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
- 1 Pet 5:7casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- Phil 4:6–7In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
- Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- Ps 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
- Jas 4:15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- Job 22:28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.
- Luke 12:29–30Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
- Ps 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Lam 3:37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
- Luke 12:22He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Eccl 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
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