Psalms 71
71
1Lord, I depend on you for protection.
Don’t let me be disappointed.
2You always do what is right, so come and save me.
Listen to me and save me.
3Be my Rock, my place of safety.
Be my fortress, and protect me!
You are my Rock and my protection.
4My God, save me from wicked people.
Save me from cruel, evil people.
5Lord GOD, you are my hope.
I have trusted you since I was a young boy.
6I depended on you even before I was born.
I relied on you even in my mother’s womb.
I have always prayed to you.#71:6 prayed to you Or “praised you.”
7You are my source of strength,
so I have been an example to others.
8I am always singing about the wonderful things you do.
9Don’t throw me away just because I am old.
Don’t leave me as I lose my strength.
10My enemies make plans against me.
They have met together and are making plans to kill me.
11They say, “Go get him!
God has left him, so there is no one to help him.”
12God, don’t leave me!
My God, hurry and help me!
13Defeat my enemies.
Destroy them completely!
They are trying to hurt me.
Let them suffer shame and disgrace.
14Then I will always trust in you
and praise you more and more.
15I will tell people how good you are.
I will tell about all the times you saved me—
too many times to count.
16I will tell about your greatness, my Lord GOD.
I will talk only about you and your goodness.
17God, you have taught me since I was a young boy.
And to this day I have told people about the wonderful things you do.
18Now that I am old and my hair is gray, don’t leave me, God.
I must tell the next generation about your power and greatness.
19God, your goodness reaches far above the skies.
You have done wonderful things.
God, there is no one like you.
20You have let me see troubles and hard times,
but you will give me new life;
you will lift me up from this pit of death!
21You will help me do even greater things.
You will comfort me again!
22I will play the harp and praise you.
My God, I will sing about your faithfulness.
I will play songs on my lyre
for the Holy One of Israel.
23I will shout for joy,
singing songs of praise to you for saving me.
24My tongue will sing about your goodness all the time,
because those who wanted to kill me
have been defeated and disgraced.
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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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