Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. After the fearful defeat of Jena in 1806, when Prussia went down before the cruel and reckless ambition of Napoleon, on no one did the throe of a nation's fall come with a more agonizing sense of ruin than on the young and beautiful Queen Louise. When she heard the news of the battle of Jena, and that she must leave her beloved home, she burst into uncontrollable weeping. How did she calm her anguish? It was the pious custom in Germany, when a pupil left school, to accompany the boy singing the thirty-seventh Psalm, of which the fifth verse is, "Fret not thyself because of evil-doers. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and He will bring it to pass." The young queen sat down to her piano and softly sang the psalm. When she rose her eye was clear, her spirit was tranquil. That same verse was also the comfort of David Livingstone during all his perils and fevers and lastings in scorching Africa and its desert wastes. (Dean Farrar.) Parallel Verses KJV: Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.WEB: Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: |
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