Psalms71

¹In 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 refuge , to which I may continually come ; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress .

⁴Rescue 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 hope , my trust , O Lord, from my youth .

⁶Upon 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.

⁷I have been as a portent to many , but you are my strong refuge .

⁸My mouth is filled with your praise , and with your glory all the day .

⁹Do 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 watch for my life consult together

¹¹and say , God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.

¹²O God , be not far from me; O my God , make haste to help me!

¹³May my accusers be put to shame and consumed ; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt .

¹⁴But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more .

¹⁵My mouth will tell of your righteous acts , of your deeds of salvation all the day , for their 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 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 .

¹⁹Your righteousness , O God , reaches the high heavens . You who have done great things , O God , who is like you?

²⁰You 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 .

²¹You will increase my greatness and comfort me again .

²²I 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 .

²³My lips will shout for joy , when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed .

²⁴And 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 .