Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit (Luke 23:44–49)
1 CPDV Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy. In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me. BSB BSB: For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
2 CPDV Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation. BSB BSB: Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
3 CPDV For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me. BSB BSB: For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
4 CPDV You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector. BSB BSB: You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
5 CPDV Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth. BSB BSB: Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
6 CPDV You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord. BSB BSB: I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
7 CPDV I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness. BSB BSB: I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
8 CPDV And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place. BSB BSB: You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
9 CPDV Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut. BSB BSB: Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
10 CPDV For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed. BSB BSB: For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
11 CPDV I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me. BSB BSB: Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.
12 CPDV I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil. BSB BSB: I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 CPDV For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life. BSB BSB: For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
14 CPDV But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.” BSB BSB: But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
15 CPDV My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me. BSB BSB: My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 CPDV Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy. BSB BSB: Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.
17 CPDV Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell. BSB BSB: O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol.
18 CPDV May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness. BSB BSB: May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
19 CPDV How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men. BSB BSB: How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
20 CPDV You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues. BSB BSB: You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
21 CPDV Blessed is the Lord. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city. BSB BSB: Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
22 CPDV But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you. BSB BSB: In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
23 CPDV Love the Lord, all you his saints. For the Lord will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance. BSB BSB: Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
24 CPDV Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in the Lord. BSB BSB: Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
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