Psalms 31:5

Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
hand	בְּיָדְךָ֮ be.ya.de.Kha	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
commit	אַפְקִ֪יד 'af.Kid	H6485	to visit (with friendly or hostile intent) · verb, hiphil imperfect, 1st person common singular
spirit	ר֫וּחִ֥י ru.Chi	H7307	wind · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 1st person feminine singular
redeemed	פָּדִ֖יתָה pa.Di.tah	H6299	to sever · verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָ֗ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֵ֣ל 'el	H410	strength · noun, common masculine singular construct
truth	אֱמֶֽת 'e.Met	H571	stability · noun, common feminine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Psalms 71:23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by traditio…
2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he can not deny himself.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:1-8

Faith and prayer must go together. He that believes, let his pray - I believe, therefore I have spoken: and he that prays, let him believe, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. We have both here. I. David, in distress, is very earnest with God in prayer for succour and relief. This eases a burdened spirit, fetches in promised mercies, and wonderfully supports and comforts the soul in the expectation of them. He prays, 1. That God would deliver him (Psa 31:1), that his life might be preserved from the malice of his enemies, and that an end might be put to their persecutions of him, that God, not only in his mercy, but in righteousness, would deliver him, as a righteous Judge betw…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 31:5

commit my spirit--my life, or myself. Our Saviour used the words on the Cross [Luk 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 Deu 32:21; Co1 8:4).

John Gill on Psalms 31:5

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 salvation of it, which he committed into the hand of the Lord his Redeemer, where he knew it would be safe, and out of whose hands none can pluck; or this he might say, as apprehensive of immediate death, through the danger he was in; and therefore commits his spirit into the hands of God, to whom he knew it belonged, and to whom it returns at death, and dies not with the body, but exists in a separate state, and would be immediately with him. Our Lord Jesus Christ used the same words when he was exp…

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John Calvin on Psalms 31:5-8

Psalm 31:5-8 5. Into thy hand I commit my spirit, for thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah! God of truth. 6. I hate all that give heed to lying vanities; but I have trusted in Jehovah. 7. I will be glad and rejoice in thy goodness, because thou hast regarded my affliction: thou hast known my soul in distresses. 8. And thou hast not shut me up in the hand of mine enemy: [638] thou hast set my feet in a large place. 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 into God's hand and to his guardianship, not only constitutes him the arbiter of life an…

The Church Fathers

Here spirit indicates mind. The mind that clings to God is one spirit.
— Evagrius Ponticus, NOTES ON THE PSALMS 30[31].6

"Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit." To Thy power I commend My Spirit, soon to receive It back. "Thou hast redeemed Me, O Lord God of truth?" Let the people too, redeemed by the Passion of their Lord, and joyful in the glorifying of their Head, say, "Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth."
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 31

Now, it is to be noted that the Lord cited this verse when on the cross, not that it was said of him in prophetic manner, as some commentators think, but because these words suited him when exposed to the risk of death and passion. So he cited this verse at the time when his soul was separated from his body, and [he] rightly entrusted it to the Father so that he might restore it to his body when it was in need of it at the time of the resurrection.
— Theodore of Mopsuestia, COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 31:6

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Dictionary and topics

David — Beloved, the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man in humble life. His mother’s name is not recorded. Some think she was the Nahash of 2 Sam.…
Immortality · 2:11; — 2:11;
Man · SPIRIT — SPIRIT
Privileges Of Saints · Committing themselves to God — Committing themselves to God
Redemption · They who partake of: Are assured of — They who partake of: Are assured of
Sickness · Saints: Acknowledge that, comes from God — Saints: Acknowledge that, comes from God
Truth Of God, The · We should: Confide in — We should: Confide in

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 31:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 31:5

John Gill on Psalms 31:5

John Calvin on Psalms 31:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 31:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 31:5

John Gill on Psalms 31:5

John Calvin on Psalms 31:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 31:1-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 31:5

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 31:5