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Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Psalms 31:3

In 11 translations

BSB
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
KJV
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
WEB
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
ASV
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me.
LSV
For You [are] my rock and my bulwark, || For Your Name’s sake lead me and tend me.
YLT
For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.
DBY
For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
DRC30:4
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
GNV
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake direct mee and guide me.
JPS31:4
For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for Thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
LXXE30:4
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC31:4
כִּֽי־סַלְעִ֣י וּמְצוּדָתִ֣י אָ֑תָּה וּלְמַ֥עַן שִׁ֝מְךָ֗ תַּֽנְחֵ֥נִי וּֽתְנַהֲלֵֽנִי׃KJV:Ps.31.3
LXX-Br30:4
Ὅτι κραταίωμά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου εἶ σὺ, καὶ ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός σου ὁδηγήσεις με, καὶ διαθρέψεις με.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 143:10–11Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground. For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
  • Psalms 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
  • Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
  • Isaiah 49:10They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
  • Psalms 25:5Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
  • John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
  • Psalms 25:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, for it is great.
  • Psalms 23:2–3He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
  • Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
  • Jeremiah 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
  • Psalms 25:9He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.
  • Psalms 139:24See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
  • Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
  • Psalms 43:3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
  • Ezekiel 36:21–22But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone. Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that…
  • Ephesians 1:12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 31:4 in some Bibles
  • 31:3 in most Bibles

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