(A)Into your hand I commit my spirit;
    you have redeemed me, O Lord, (B)faithful God.

I (C)hate[a] those who pay (D)regard to worthless (E)idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.
I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
    because you have seen my affliction;
    you have (F)known the distress of my soul,
and you have not (G)delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
    you have set my feet in (H)a broad place.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am (I)in distress;
    (J)my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and (K)my bones waste away.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:6 Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate

(6) Into Thine yad I commit my ruach; Thou hast redeemed me, Hashem El Emes [Lk 23:46; Ac 7:59].

(7) I hate them that are the shomrim of lying vanities [i.e., idols]; but I trust in Hashem.

(8) I will be glad and rejoice in Thy chesed; for Thou hast seen my affliction; Thou hast known the tzoros (troubles) of my nefesh;

(9) And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy); Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav (large place, spacious or broad place).

(10) Channeni, Hashem, for I am in tzoros; mine eye is consumed with ka’as (grief), my nefesh and my beten.

10 (11) For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groaning; my ko’ach faileth because of mine avon (iniquity), and my atzmot waste away.

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