Psalms 71
71
My Hope When I Am Gray
1In You, Adonai, have I taken refuge. Let me never be ashamed.
2Deliver me and rescue me in Your justice. Turn Your ear to me and save me.
3Be to me a sheltering rock where I may always go. Give the command to save me— for You are my rock and my fortress.
4My God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the grasp of an evil, ruthless man.
5For You are my hope, Adonai my Lord— my trust from my youth.
6From my birth I have leaned on You. You took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise is always about You.
7I am like an ominous sign to many, but You are my strong refuge.
8My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your glory all day.
9Do not cast me away in the time of old age. When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
10For my enemies speak against me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
11saying: “God has forsaken him— Pursue and take him, for no one will deliver.”
12O God, be not far from me! My God, come quickly to help me.
13Let the accusers of my soul be disgraced and destroyed. Let those who seek to harm me be covered with scorn and confusion.
14But I—I will hope continually and will praise You more and more.
15My mouth will recount Your justice and Your salvation all day, though I do not know the sum of them.
16I come because of the mighty deeds of Adonai my Lord. I will remember Your righteousness —Yours alone.
17God, You taught me from my youth, and I still keep declaring Your wonders.
18So even until I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, till I tell of Your strong arm to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
19For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to high heaven. You have done great things— O God, who is like You?
20You made me see many troubles and evils —You will revive me again— from the depths of the earth You will bring me up again.
21You will increase my greatness, and comfort me once again.
22So I will praise You with the harp for your truth, O my God. I will sing praises to You with the lyre O Holy One of Israel.
23My lips will shout for joy —when I sing praises to You— and my soul, which You have redeemed.
24Also my tongue will tell of Your righteousness all day. For those who seek my hurt have been put to shame and confusion.
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Psalm 71
71
Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent
1 # For ver. 1-3, see Ps. 31:1-3 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
2In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
3Be to me a rock of #[Ps. 90:1; 91:9; Deut. 33:27] refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have #See Ps. 42:8 given the command to save me,
for you are my #See Ps. 18:2rock and my fortress.
4 #
Ps. 140:1, 4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5For you, O Lord, are my #Jer. 14:8; 17:13; 50:7; 1 Tim. 1:1hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
6Upon you I have leaned #See Ps. 22:10 from before my birth;
you are he who #Ps. 22:9took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.
7I have been as #Isa. 8:18; [1 Cor. 4:9]a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
8My #ver. 24mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
9 # ver. 18 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
10For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who #Ps. 56:6 watch for my life #Ps. 83:5; [Ps. 41:7, 8]consult together
11and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”
12O God, be not #See Ps. 10:1 far from me;
O my God, #Ps. 70:5; See Ps. 40:13make haste to help me!
13May my accusers be #ver. 24; See Ps. 35:4, 26 put to shame and consumed;
#
Ps. 109:29 with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who #ver. 24; Esth. 9:2; [Ps. 70:2]seek my hurt.
14But I will #ver. 5 hope continually
and will #ver. 22praise you yet more and more.
15My #ver. 8, 24 mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for #See Ps. 40:5their number is past my knowledge.
16With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18So even to #Isa. 46:4 old age and gray hairs,
O God, #ver. 9do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
19Your #Ps. 36:5 righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done #Ps. 126:2; 1 Sam. 12:24; Luke 1:49 great things,
O God, #Ps. 35:10who is like you?
20You who have #Ps. 60:3 made me see many troubles and calamities
will #Ps. 80:18; 85:6; 119:25; 138:7; 143:11; Hos. 6:2revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.
22I will also praise you with #Ps. 33:2 the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O #Ps. 78:41; 89:18; 2 Kgs. 19:22; Isa. 60:9Holy One of Israel.
23My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have #Ps. 34:22redeemed.
24And my #[ver. 8, 15]; See Ps. 35:28 tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been #[ver. 13]put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.
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