Psalm 71

¹In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be ashamed.

²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

³Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou artmy trust from my youth.

⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

⁷I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day.

⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁰For mine enemies speak concerning me; and they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.

¹²O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste to help me.

¹³Let them be ashamed andconsumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.

¹⁵My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, andof thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

¹⁶I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

¹⁸Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have declared thy strength unto the nextgeneration, thy might to every one that is to come.

¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

²⁰Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore troubles, shalt quicken us again, and shalt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹Increase thou my greatness, and turn again and comfort me.

²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery, eventhy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are ashamed, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.