My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
My times ... thy hand. Compare on "my times," 1 Chronicles 29:30; Daniel 2:21. Christ, the great representative man, continually realized the sense of his times, with all their trials and their comforts, being absolutely at the disposal of God, who can, at His sovereign and all-wise will, in a moment change, joy into sorrow, or sorrow into joy. "Mine hour," He said, on one occasion, "is not yet come;" nor could His enemies touch Him until the hour appointed by the Father (John 2:4; John 7:6; John 7:8; John 7:30; John 8:20; cf. margin and text; 1 Kings 8:59).