Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
aIn You, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;
Let me never bbe ashamed;
cIn Your righteousness protect me.
2 aIncline Your ear to me, deliver me quickly;
Be to me a brock of strength,
A fortress to save me.
3 For You are my ahigh rock and my fortress;
For bYour name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.
4 You will abring me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my bstrength.
5 aInto Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have bransomed me, O Yahweh, cGod of truth.
6 I hate those who aregard worthless idols,
But I btrust in Yahweh.
7 I will arejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,
Because You have bseen my affliction;
You have known the troubles of my soul,
8 And You have not agiven me over into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large place.
9 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for aI am in distress;
My beye is wasted away from grief, cmy soul and my body also.
10 For my life is worn down with asorrow
And my years with sighing;
My bstrength fails because of my iniquity,
And cmy bones waste away.
11 Among all my adversaries, I have become a areproach,
Especially to my bneighbors,
And an object of dread to my acquaintances;
Those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I am aforgotten like a dead man—out of mind—
I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard athe bad report of many,
bTerror is on every side;
While they ctook counsel together against me,
They dschemed to take my life.
14 But as for me, I trust in You, O Yahweh,
I say, “aYou are my God.”
15 My atimes are in Your hand;
bDeliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 Make Your aface to shine upon Your slave;
bSave me in Your lovingkindness.
17 O Yahweh, let me not be aput to shame, for I call upon You;
Let the bwicked be put to shame, let them cbe silent in Sheol.
18 Let the alying lips be mute,
Which bspeak arrogantly against the righteous
With lofty pride and contempt.
19 How great is Your agoodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have worked for those who btake refuge in You,
cBefore the sons of men!
20 You hide them in the asecret place of Your presence from the bconspiracies of man;
You keep them secretly in a shelter from the cstrife of tongues.
21 aBlessed be Yahweh,
For He has made bmarvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged ccity.
22 As for me, aI said in my alarm,
“I am bcut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless, You cheard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You for help.
23 Oh, love Yahweh, all you aHis holy ones!
Yahweh bguards the faithful
But crepays fully the one who acts in lofty pride.
24 aBe strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who wait for Yahweh.