Psalms 31:15
My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
BSB
ASV
My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
KJV
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
My times are in thy hand. The sovereign arbiter of destiny holds in his own power all the issues of our life; we are not waifs and strays upon the ocean of fate, but are steered by infinite wisdom towards our desired haven. Providence is a soft pillow for anxious heads, an anodyne for care, a grave for despair. Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
When David had Saul at his mercy in the cave those about him said, " This is the time in which God will deliver thee," 1 Sam. xxiv. "No," says David, "the time has not come for my deliverance till it can be wrought without sin; and I will wait for that time; for it is God's time, and that is the best time." 2.
1834–1892
DAVID was sad—his life was spent with grief and his years with sighing. His sorrow had wasted his strength and even his bones were consumed within him. Cruel enemies pursued him with malicious craft, even seeking his life. At such a time he used the best resource of grief, for he says in verse 14, "But I trusted in You, O Lord." He had no other refuge but that which he found in faith in the Lord, his God. If enemies slandered him, he did not render railing for railing.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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John 7:6Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
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Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
“Woman, why does this concern us?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world,…
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Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
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No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.
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John 17:1When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
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I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.