Verse Psalms 31:5. _INTO 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, difficulti...
INTO 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...
Psalms 31 The Enemies of Israel and the Victory _ 1. The prayer for deliverance (Psalms 31:1)_ 2. The victory (Psalms 31:19)...
XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. PSALMS 31:1_ A_. Recurs with textual variants in Psalms 71:1. Psalm...
INTO, &C. Quoted in Luke 23:4 Luke 23:6. HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ COMMIT. I will commit. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. REDEEMED. delivered by power. Hebrew. _padah._ See note on...
The prayer of faith, Psalms 31:1 are repeated in that beautiful mosaic, Psalms 71; and Psalms 31:1 _a_forms the close of the _Te Deum_....
_I commit_&c. Or, as P.B.V. and R.V., I commend my spirit. To God's care he entrusts as a precious deposit the life inbreathed by God Himself (Job 10:12; Job 17:1). The context makes it plain that it...
INTO THINE HAND, &C.— i.e. "To thy care and custody I commit my _life,_ or my _breath,_ as the word רוח _ruach,_ signifies, as well as the _spirit_ or _soul;_ and the breath, being the sign of life, m...
PSALMS 31 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Fellowship in Suffering and Salvation. ANALYSIS Stanzas I., and II, Psalms 31:1-8, Suffering, caused chiefly by enemies, some of them Idolatrous, Overcome by Steadfast F...
_INTO THINE HAND I COMMIT MY SPIRIT: THOU HAST REDEEMED ME, O LORD GOD OF TRUTH._ Into ... - Christ's dying words (Luke 23:46). REDEEMED. In its application to the Saviour, the expression "redeemed...
The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God's past deliverances (Psalms 31:1), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail him in the present (Psalms 31:9), and ends with fervent thankful...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
I COMMIT. — Most memorable, even among expressions of the Psalms, as the dying words of our Lord Himself (Luke 23:46), and a long line of Christian worthies. Polycarp, Bernard, Huss, Henry V., Jerome...
_[Psalms 31:6]_ בְּ יָדְךָ֮ אַפְקִ֪יד ר֫וּחִ֥י פָּדִ֖יתָה...
Psalms 31:1 THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-soul to those who have known what it is to ride on the top...
A CRY OUT OF DEEP TROUBLE Psalms 31:1 Some have supposed that this psalm was written during the Sauline persecutions; but it is more likely that it dates from Absalom's rebellion. It alternates betwe...
In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the children of faith. There are three divisions. In the first...
Into thine (c) hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. (c) He desires God not only to take care of him in this life, but that his soul may be saved after this life....
Sin. Or as some psalters read, "of my heart," with the Septuagint, Cassiodorus, &c. (Calmet) --- "I know that thou wilt readily forgive the sins which are fully laid open before thee." (St. Jerome) --...
The last verse of these five becomes a key to open to us the four preceding. Nothing can be more evident than that the whole must have been written by David, under the spirit of prophecy, in direct re...
5._Into thy hand I commit my spirit. _David again declares his faith to God, and affirms that he had such high thoughts of his providence, as to cast all his cares upon it. Whoever commits himself int...
Psalms 31 is a proof how Jesus could use devout and holy expressions of a psalm, and indeed pass through all in spirit, without its having a literal application to Him. Here is found the expression He...
INTO THINE HAND I COMMIT MY SPIRIT,.... Either his life, as to a faithful Creator and Preserver, who was the God of his life, gave him it, and upheld his soul in it; or his soul, and the eternal salva...
_Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth._ Ver. 5. _Into thine hand I commit my spirit_] So did our Saviour, so did St Stephen, and divers of the dying martyrs,...
_Into thy hand_ That is, to thy care and custody; _I commit my spirit_ My soul or life, either to preserve it from the malice of mine enemies, or, if they are permitted to kill my body, to receive it....
Into Thine hand I commit my spirit, in all the vicissitudes of life, in all the dangers of death, he places the life of his spirit into the hands of his heavenly Father, as in the safest place of depo...
THE BELIEVER'S HUMBLE AND CONFIDENT SUBMISSION TO THE HAND OF GOD. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Tabernacle worship, a psalm of David, written at some time when...
1-8 Faith and prayer must go together, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. David gave up his soul in a special manner to God. And with the words, ver. 5, our Lord Jesus yielded up his l...
INTO THINE HAND, i.e. to thy care and custody, I COMMIT MY SPIRIT, i.e. my soul or life, called a man's spirit, as ECCLESIASTES 3:21, ECCLESIASTES 12:7, &c. Either, 1. To receive it; for my case is a...
Psalms 31:5 hand H3027 commit H6485 (H8686) spirit H7307 redeemed H6299 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H410 truth...
Into your hand I commend my spirit, You have redeemed me, O YHWH, you God of truth. I hate those who regard lying vanities (false idols), But I trust in YHWH. With that in mind he commends his spir...
REDEEMED (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
Psalms 31:5 _(with Luke xxiii., ver. 46, and Acts vii., ver. 59)_ I. Regard the words as supplying the true watchword of life. When we commit our spirit into the hand of God, three results accrue. (1...
Psalms 31:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;_ This is a good beginning; this is the fulcrum which will give us the necessary leverage for lifting any weight of sorrow or trouble that may be burd...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This Psalm was meant to be sung, therefore it was dedicated to the chief musician; yet it is a Psalm of which at least half is very sorrowful. All our hymns we...
Psalms 31:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;_ Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-note, that which should be the first indication of our...
CONTENTS: David implores God's help against enemies and extols God for his preservation. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: All our affairs are safe in Jehovah's hands; without reservation therefor...
Psalms 31:5. _Into thine hand I commit my spirit,_ the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment before his death, when addressing the Lord Jesus; and...
_Into Thine hand I commit my spirit._ THE LAST WORDS OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS (with Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59):-- I. I invite you first to consider our Saviour’s words just before his death: “Father, int...
_Be Thou my strong rook,.. . for Thou art my rock, _ “BE. .. FOR THOU ART” It sounds strange logic, “Be. .. for Thou art,” and yet it is the logic of prayer, and goes very deep, pointing out both it...
_In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust._ MAN TRUSTING IN JEHOVAH I. Here is man trusting in Jehovah Is great trials. 1. It seems strange that God should allow a man who trusts in Him to become involve...
INTRODUCTION A psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the use of the same word in Psalms 31:2 (Heb.), and 1 Sam...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is, in the main, a cry for deliverance out of pressing danger and trouble; but it is interspersed with passages of a more cheerful tone, expressive of faith and confidence (Psalm...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 31:1-24. This thirty-first psalm is actually divided into three sections. The first one covering the first eight verses, the second one covering verses Psalms 31...
1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; 2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 2:13; Acts 7:59;
My spirit — My soul or life; to preserve it from the malice of mine enemies. For — Thou hast delivered me formerly, and therefore I commit myself to thee for the future. O Lord, &c. — Who hast shewed...