Psalm 71

¹In you, LORD, I take refuge.

Never let me be disappointed.

²Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.

Turn your ear to me, and save me.

³Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.

Give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,

from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵For you are my hope, Lord GOD,

my confidence from my youth.

⁶I have relied on you from the womb.

You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.

I will always praise you.

⁷I am a marvel to many,

but you are my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth shall be filled with your praise,

with your honor all day long.

⁹Don’t reject me in my old age.

Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

¹⁰For my enemies talk about me.

Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

¹¹saying, “God has forsaken him.

Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

¹²God, don’t be far from me.

My God, hurry to help me.

¹³Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.

Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

¹⁴But I will always hope,

and will add to all of your praise.

¹⁵My mouth will tell about your righteousness,

and of your salvation all day,

though I don’t know its full measure.

¹⁶I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD.

I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

¹⁷God, you have taught me from my youth.

Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

¹⁸Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me,

until I have declared your strength to the next generation,

your might to everyone who is to come.

¹⁹God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens.

You have done great things.

God, who is like you?

²⁰You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,

you will let me live.

You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹Increase my honor

and comfort me again.

²²I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.

I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips shall shout for joy!

My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

²⁴My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,

for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,

who want to harm me.