God’s Word Translation
Psalms 31:5
5Into your hands I entrust my spirit. You have rescued me, O Lord, God of truth.
Psalms 31:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
- New International Version (NIV)Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Context of Psalms 31:5
3Indeed, you are my rock and my fortress. For the sake of your name, lead me and guide me. 4You are my refuge, so pull me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me. Into your hands I entrust my spirit. You have rescued me, O Lord, God of truth. 6I hate those who cling to false gods, but I trust the Lord. 7I will rejoice and be glad because of your mercy. You have seen my misery. You have known the troubles in my soul.
Read all of Psalms 31Psalms 31:5 word by word
בְּיָדְךָ֮ אַפְקִ֪יד ר֫וּחִ֥י פָּדִ֖יתָה אוֹתִ֥י יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֣ל אֱמֶֽת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 31:5
- Luke 23:46Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.” After he said this, he died.
- Acts 7:59While council members were executing Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, welcome my spirit.”
- 2 Timothy 1:12For this reason I suffer as I do. However, I’m not ashamed. I know whom I trust. I’m convinced that he is able to protect what he had entrusted to me until that day.
- Psalms 71:23My lips will sing with joy when I make music to praise you. My soul, which you have rescued, also will sing joyfully.
- Psalms 130:8He will rescue Israel from all its sins.
- Genesis 48:16may the Messenger, who has rescued me from all evil, bless these boys. May they be called by my name and by the names of my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac. May they have many children on the earth.”
- Leviticus 25:48After he has sold himself, he has the right to be bought back. One of his brothers may buy him back.
- Isaiah 50:2Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Don’t I have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.
- 1 Peter 1:18Realize that you weren’t set free from the worthless life handed down to you from your ancestors by a payment of silver or gold which can be destroyed.
- Revelation 5:9Then they sang a new song, “You deserve to take the scroll and open the seals on it, because you were slaughtered. You bought people with your blood to be God’s own. They are from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is a rock. What he does is perfect. All his ways are fair. He is a faithful God, who does no wrong. He is honorable and reliable.
- 2 Timothy 2:13If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful because he cannot be untrue to himself.
- Hebrews 6:18God did this so that we would be encouraged. God cannot lie when he takes an oath or makes a promise. These two things can never be changed. Those of us who have taken refuge in him hold on to the confidence we have been given.
Commentaries on Psalms 31:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Into thine hand I commit my spirit - These words, as they stand in the Vulgate, were in the highest credit among our ancestors; by whom they were used in all dangers, difficulties, and in the article of death. In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum, was used by the sick when about to expire, if they were sensible; and if not, the priest said it in their behalf. In forms of prayer for sick and dying persons, these words were frequently inserted in…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Into thine hand I commit my spirit - The Saviour used this expression when on the cross, and when about to die: Luke 23:46. But this does not prove that the psalm had originally a reference to him, or that he meant to intimate that the words originally were a prophecy. The language was appropriate for him, as it is for all others in the hour of death; and his use of the words furnished the highest illustration of their being appropriate in that hour. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Into Your hands I commit my spirit: The psalmist will trust his Lord, whether he lives or dies. Jesus said these words on the cross before he died (Luke 23:46).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. commit my spirit--my life, or myself. Our Saviour used the words on the Cross [Lu 23:46], not as prophetical, but, as many pious men have done, as expressive of His unshaken confidence in God. The Psalmist rests on God's faithfulness to His promises to His people, and hence avows himself one of them, detesting all who revere objects of idolatry (compare De 32:21; 1Co 8:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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