Psalms 31:15

Amplified Bible

My times are in Your hands; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
My future is in your hands. Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly.

English Revised Version
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Update Bible Version
My times are in your hand: Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those that persecute me.

New Century Version
My life is in your hands. Save me from my enemies and from those who are chasing me.

New English Translation
You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.

Webster's Bible Translation
My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

World English Bible
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

English Standard Version
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Delyuer thou me fro the hondis of mynen enemyes; and fro hem that pursuen me.

Berean Standard Bible
My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Contemporary English Version
My life is in your hands. Save me from enemies who hunt me down.

American Standard Version
My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Bible in Basic English
The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

Complete Jewish Bible
But I, I trust in you, Adonai ; I say, "You are my God."

Darby Translation
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

Easy-to-Read Version
My life is in your hands. Save me from those who are persecuting me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But as for me, I have trusted in Thee, O LORD; I have said: 'Thou art my God.'

King James Version (1611)
My times are in thy hand: deliuer me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

New Life Bible
My times are in Your hands. Free me from the hands of those who hate me, and from those who try to hurt me.

New Revised Standard
My times are in your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My times are in thine hande: deliuer mee from the hande of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

George Lamsa Translation
The times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me.

Good News Translation
I am always in your care; save me from my enemies, from those who persecute me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In thy hand, are my times, Rescue me from the hand of my foes and from my pursuers!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-16) My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

Revised Standard Version
My times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My time is in thy hande, deliuer me from the hande of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My lots are in thy hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,

Christian Standard Bible®
The course of my life is in your power;rescue me from the power of my enemiesand from my persecutors.

Hebrew Names Version
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

King James Version
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Lexham English Bible
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Literal Translation
My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Young's Literal Translation
In Thy hand [are] my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I haue herde the blasphemy of the multitude: euery man abhorreth me: they haue gathered a councel together agaynst me, and are purposed to take awaye my life.

New American Standard Bible
My times are in Your hand; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

New King James Version
My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from those who persecute me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

Legacy Standard Bible
My times are in Your hand;Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Contextual Overview

⁹Be gracious and compassionate to me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also. ¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And even my body has wasted away. ¹¹Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me on the street run from me. ¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. ¹³For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life. ¹⁴But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O LORD; I said, "You are my God." ¹⁵My times are in Your hands; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me.¹⁶Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness. ¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on You; Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). ¹⁸Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My times: Psalms 116:15, 1 Samuel 26:10, 2 Samuel 7:12, Job 24:1, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, Luke 9:51, John 7:6, John 7:30, John 12:27, John 13:1, John 17:1, Acts 1:7, Acts 23:11, Acts 27:24, 2 Timothy 4:6, 2 Peter 1:14

deliver: Psalms 17:8, Psalms 17:9, Psalms 17:13, Psalms 71:10-12, Psalms 142:6, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:12, Jeremiah 15:20, Jeremiah 15:21

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:37 - General Deuteronomy 33:3 - all his saints Psalms 7:1 - save Psalms 37:18 - the days Daniel 2:21 - he changeth Acts 17:26 - hath determined

Cross-References

Genesis 30:26
"Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you."

Genesis 31:7
"Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.

Genesis 31:11
"And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' And I said, 'Here I am.'

Genesis 31:15
"Are we not counted by him as foreigners? For he sold us [to you in marriage], and has also entirely used up our purchase price.

Genesis 31:20
And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean (Syrian) by not telling him that he intended to leave and he slipped away secretly.

Genesis 31:27
"Why did you run away secretly and deceive me and not tell me, so that [otherwise] I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with [music on the] tambourine and lyre?

Genesis 31:30
"Now [I suppose] you felt you must go because you were homesick for your father's house and family; but why did you steal my [household] gods?"

Genesis 31:41
"These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for [my share of] your flocks, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, "According to our ability we have redeemed (purchased back) our Jewish brothers who were sold to the [Gentile] nations; now would you even sell your brothers, that they might be sold to us?" Then they were silent and could not find a [single] word to say.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My times [are] in thy hand,.... And not in the hand of his enemies; as his time of life and death, which was only by the direction and appointment of God, was in his power, and fixed by him; nor could his enemies take away his life before his time, and without the will of his covenant God: the time of his coming to the throne, and what was gone over him during his reign hitherto, 1 Chronicles 29:30; and all his times of trouble in it; times of prosperity and of adversity; of darkness, desertion, and temptation; and of joy, peace, and comfort; these were all in the hands of the Lord, at his disposal, and ordered by him for the good of his servant, and for the glory of his own name; and this was a quieting consideration to the psalmist under his present trials and exercises; the Targum is, "the times of my redemption"

deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me; a good man has many enemies, and even his very goodness creates him such; for wicked men are enemies to all that is good; and those are persecuting ones, in one way or other; either by words or deeds; and deliverance out of their hands is by the Lord, who sometimes gives his people rest from adversity, and suffers not the rod of the wicked to continue on them; and therefore it is best to apply to him for it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My times are in thy hand - That is, I said this in my trouble; when my friends forsook me, and when my enemies came around me and threatened my life. The meaning is, that all that pertained to him was under the control and at the disposal of God. He would “live” as long as God should please. It was His to give life; His to preserve it; His to take it away. All in relation to life - its origin - its continuance - its changes - its seasons - childhood, youth, middle age, old age - all was in the hand of God. No one, therefore, could take his life before the time that had been appointed by God, and he might calmly commit the whole to him. This we may feel in all seasons of life and in all times of danger; of sickness; of feebleness. We shall live as long as God has appointed; we shall pass through such changes as he directs; we shall die when and where and how he chooses. In the faithful discharge of our duty, therefore, we may commit all these things to him, and leave all at his disposal.

Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies - That is, since all these things are under thy control; since thou hast power over my life and over all that pertains to me, I pray that thy power may be exerted in my behalf, and that my life may be rescued from danger. This was his prayer in the midst of his troubles, and this prayer was heard.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 31:15. My times are in thy hand — The events of my life are under thy control. No danger can happen to me without thy foresight; thou seest what is prepared for or meditated against me; thou canst therefore deliver me from mine enemies.