Into your hands I commend my spirit
(Luke 23:44-49)
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Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy.
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In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me.
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Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation.
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For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me.
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You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector.
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Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth.
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You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord.
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I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness.
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And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
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Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut.
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For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed.
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I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me.
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I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil.
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For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area.(a) While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life.
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But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.”
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My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me.
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Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy.
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Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell.
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May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness.
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How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men.
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You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues.
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Blessed is the Lord. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city.
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But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you.
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Love the Lord, all you his saints. For the Lord will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance.
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Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in the Lord.
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