PSALM 30
Response:
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Verse 1:
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Let me never be put to shame.
In your justice, set me free.
Into your hands I commend my spirit.
It is you who will redeem me, Lord.
Verse 2:
In the face of all my foes
I am a reproach,
an object of scorn to my neighbours
and of fear to my friends.
Verse 3:
Those who see me in the street
run far away from me.
I am like a dead man, forgotten in men’s hearts,
like a thing thrown away.
Verse 4:
But as for me, I trust in you, Lord,
I say: ‘You are my God.’
My life is in your hands, deliver me
from the hands of those who hate me.