Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

¹oIn you, O Lord, do I ptake refuge;

qlet me never be put to shame;

in your rrighteousness deliver me!

²Incline your ear to me;

rescue me speedily!

Be sa rock of trefuge for me,

a strong fortress to save me!

³For you are my rock and my fortress;

and for your uname's sake you lead me and guide me;

⁴you vtake me out of wthe net they have hidden for me,

for you are my xrefuge.

⁵yInto your hand I commit my spirit;

you have redeemed me, O Lord, zfaithful God.

⁶I ahate1 those who pay bregard to worthless cidols,

but I trust in the Lord.

⁷I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,

because you have seen my affliction;

you have dknown the distress of my soul,

⁸and you have not edelivered me into the hand of the enemy;

you have set my feet in fa broad place.

⁹Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am gin distress;

hmy eye is wasted from grief;

my soul and my body also.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow,

and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my iniquity,

and imy bones waste away.

¹¹Because of all my adversaries I have become ja reproach,

especially to my kneighbors,

and an object of dread to my acquaintances;

those who see me in the street lflee from me.

¹²I have been mforgotten like one who is dead;

I have become like na broken vessel.

¹³For I ohear the whispering of many—

terror on every side!—

pas they scheme together against me,

as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴But I qtrust in you, O Lord;

I say, “You are my God.”

¹⁵My rtimes are in your hand;

srescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

¹⁶tMake your face shine on your servant;

save me in your steadfast love!

¹⁷O Lord, ulet me not be put to shame,

for I call upon you;

let the wicked be put to shame;

let them go vsilently to Sheol.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be mute,

which wspeak xinsolently against the righteous

in pride and contempt.

¹⁹Oh, how abundant is your goodness,

which you have stored up for those who fear you

and worked for those who take refuge in you,

yin the sight of the children of mankind!

²⁰In zthe cover of your presence you hide them

from the plots of men;

you astore them in your shelter

from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the Lord,

for he has wondrously bshown his steadfast love to me

when I was in ca besieged city.

²²I had said in my dalarm,2

“I am ecut off from fyour sight.”

But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy

when I cried to you for help.

²³Love the Lord, all you his gsaints!

The Lord preserves the faithful

but abundantly hrepays the one who acts in pride.

²⁴iBe strong, and let your heart take courage,

all you who wait for the Lord!