Psalms - Chapter 71 | English Standard Version

  • 1. In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
  • 2. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!
  • 3. Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
  • 4. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
  • 5. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
  • 6. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.
  • 7. I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
  • 8. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.
  • 9. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
  • 10. For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together
  • 11. and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him."
  • 12. O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
  • 13. May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.
  • 14. But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.
  • 15. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
  • 16. With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
  • 17. O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
  • 18. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
  • 19. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?
  • 20. You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.
  • 21. You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.
  • 22. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
  • 23. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.
  • 24. And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.
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