Psalms 71

Ps 31:1–4

1In You, O Lord, do I take refuge;

let me never be put to shame. # Ps 25:2–3; 31:1–3

2Deliver me in Your righteousness and rescue me; # Ps 31:1

incline Your ear to me, and save me. # Ps 17:6

3Be to me a rock of refuge

to which I may continually come;

You have given the commandment to save me,

for You are my rock and my fortress. # Ps 18:2; 31:2–3

4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,

out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5For You are my hope, O Lord God; # Jer 17:7, 13

You are my trust from my youth.

6I have leaned on You since my birth;

You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. # Ps 22:9–10

My praise will be continually of You. # Ps 34:1

7I have become a marvel to many, # Isa 8:18; 1Co 4:9

for You are my strong refuge.

8Let my mouth be filled with Your praise

and with Your glory all the day. # Ps 35:28

9Cast me not away in the time of old age; # Ps 71:18; Isa 46:4

forsake me not when my strength fails.

10For my enemies speak against me,

and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together, # Ps 56:6; 83:3

11saying, “God has forsaken him;

pursue and take him,

for there is no one to deliver him.” # Ps 3:2; 7:2

12O God, be not far from me; # Ps 35:22; 38:21–22

O my God, make haste to help me.

13Let them be confounded and consumed

who are adversaries of my soul;

let them be covered with reproach and dishonor

who seek my hurt. # Ps 35:4, 26

14But I will hope continually,

and will praise You yet more and more.

15My mouth will tell of Your righteousness

and of Your salvation all the day, # Ps 35:28

for I do not know their extent. # Ps 40:5

16I will go in the strength of the Lord God;

I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only. # Ps 51:14

17O God, You have taught me from my youth,

and I still declare Your wondrous works.

18Now also when I am old and gray,

O God, do not forsake me, # Ps 71:9

until I declare Your might to this generation,

and Your power to everyone who is to come. # Ps 78:4

19Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens, # Ps 57:10

You who have done great things;

O God, who is like You? # Ps 35:10

20You who have shown me many troubles and distresses

will revive me again, # Ps 60:3

and will bring me up again

from the depths of the earth.

21You will increase my greatness

and comfort me on every side.

22Also with the harp will I praise You

for Your faithfulness, O my God;

to You will I sing praises with the lyre, # Ps 33:2

O Holy One of Israel. # 2Ki 19:22

23My lips will greatly rejoice

when I sing to You,

and my soul, which You have redeemed. # Ps 103:4

24My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness

all the day long, # Ps 35:28

for they are confounded and brought to shame

who seek my hurt. # Ps 71:13

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Psalms 71

PSALM 71

Common Meter: 8,6,8,6

1O Lord, my hope and confidence

is plac'd in thee alone;

Then let thy servant never be

put to confusion.

2And let me, in thy righteousness,

from thee deliv'rance have;

Cause me escape, incline thine ear unto me,

and me save.

3Be thou my dwelling-rock, to which

I ever may resort:

Thou gav'st commandment me to save,

for thou'rt my rock and fort.

4Free me, my God, from wicked hands,

hands cruel and unjust:

5For thou, O Lord God, art my hope,

and from my youth my trust.

6Thou from the womb didst hold me up;

thou art the same that me

Out of my mother's bowels took;

I ever will praise thee.

7To many I a wonder am;

but thou'rt my refuge strong.

8Fill'd let my mouth be with thy praise

and honour all day long.

9O do not cast me off, when as

old age doth overtake me;

And when my strength decayed is,

then do not thou forsake me.

10For those that are mine enemies

against me speak with hate;

And they together counsel take

that for my soul lay wait.

11They said, God leaves him; him pursue

and take: none will him save.

12Be thou not far from me, my God:

thy speedy help I crave.

13Confound, consume them, that unto

my soul are enemies:

Cloth'd be they with reproach and shame

that do my hurt devise.

14But I with expectation

will hope continually;

And yet with praises more and more

I will thee magnify.

15Thy justice and salvation

my mouth abroad shall show,

Ev'n all the day; for I thereof

the numbers do not know.

16And I will constantly go on

in strength of God the Lord;

And thine own righteousness, ev'n thine

alone, I will record.

17For even from my youth, O God,

by thee I have been taught;

And hitherto I have declar'd

the wonders thou hast wrought.

18And now, Lord, leave me not, when I

old and gray-headed grow:

Till to this age thy strength and pow'r

to all to come I show.

19And thy most perfect righteousness

O Lord, is very high,

Who hast so great things done: O God,

who is like unto thee?

20Thou, Lord, who great adversities,

and sore, to me didst show,

Shalt quicken, and bring me again

from depths of earth below.

21My greatness and my pow'r thou wilt

increase, and far extend:

On ev'ry side against all grief

thou wilt me comfort send.

22Thee, ev'n thy truth, I'll also praise,

my God, with psaltery:

Thou Holy One of Israel,

with harp I'll sing to thee.

23My lips shall much rejoice in thee,

when I thy praises sound;

My soul, which thou redeemed hast,

in joy shall much abound.

24My tongue thy justice shall proclaim,

continuing all day long;

For they confounded are, and sham'd,

that seek to do me wrong.

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