Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit (Luke 23:44–49)
1 ULT In you, Yahweh, I take refuge; do not ever let me have shame; in your righteousness 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 ULT Incline your ear to me; rescue me quickly; be for me a rocky summit of refuge, a dwelling place of strongholds to save me. BSB BSB: Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
3 ULT Indeed, you are my rock and my stronghold; therefore for the sake of your name you lead me and guide me. BSB BSB: For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
4 ULT You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for you are my refuge. BSB BSB: You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
5 ULT Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, Yahweh, God of faithfulness. BSB BSB: Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
6 ULT I hate the ones keeping idols of worthlessness, but I trust in Yahweh. BSB BSB: I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
7 ULT I will be glad and rejoice in your covenant faithfulness, for you have seen my affliction; you have known the troubles of my soul, 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 ULT and you have not delivered me into the hand of the ones being hostile to me; you have set my feet in an open space. BSB BSB: You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
9 ULT Be gracious to me, Yahweh, for I am in distress; my eye has wasted away from grief, my soul and my body. 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 ULT For my life has come to an end with sorrow, and my years with groaning; my strength fails from my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 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 ULT Among all of the ones being hostile to me I have become a reproach, and especially to my neighbors, and dread to the ones knowing me; the ones seeing me outside flee 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 ULT I have been forgotten like a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. BSB BSB: I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 ULT For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— while they conspire together against me; they plan to take 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 ULT But I trust in you, Yahweh; I say,“You are my God.” BSB BSB: But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
15 ULT My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of the ones being hostile to me and from the ones pursuing me. BSB BSB: My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 ULT Make your face shine upon your servant; save me in your covenant faithfulness. BSB BSB: Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.
17 ULT Yahweh, do not let me have shame, for I have called upon you; let the wicked have shame; let them be silent in Sheol. 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 ULT Let lying lips be silenced, the ones speaking insolent things against the righteous, in pride and contempt. BSB BSB: May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
19 ULT How great is your goodness which you have stored up for the ones fearing you,{ which} you have done for the ones taking refuge in you, before the sons of man! 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 ULT You hide them in the hiding- place of your presence from the plots of man; you hide them in a shelter from the strife 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 ULT Blessed be Yahweh, for he has shown marvelously his covenant faithfulness to me in a besieged city. BSB BSB: Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
22 ULT For I said in my alarm,“I am cut off from your eyes.” But indeed you heard the voice of my pleas when I cried 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 ULT Love Yahweh, all{ you} faithful ones! Yahweh preserves the faithful, but he pays back fully the proud person. BSB BSB: Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
24 ULT Be firm and let your heart be courageous, all the ones waiting for Yahweh. BSB BSB: Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.