Psa. 71
:1
71:1
aIn You, O Jehovah, do I
btake refuge;
Never let me be put to shame.
Psa. 71
:2
71:2
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
Incline Your ear to me and save me.
Psa. 71
:3
71:3
Be to me a
arock of habitation
for me to come to continually.
You have given command to save me,
For You are my rock and my
bfortress.
Psa. 71
:4
71:4
My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked,
From the hand of the unjust and cruel;
Psa. 71
:5
71:5
For You are my hope, O Lord Jehovah,
My trust from my youth.
Psa. 71
:6
71:6
On You I have been sustained since
abirth;
It was You who took me from my mother’s
bwomb;
My praise is continually of You.
Psa. 71
:7
71:7
I am like a wonder to many,
But You are my strong
arefuge.
Psa. 71
:8
71:8
My mouth is filled with Your praise,
With Your
1glory, all day long.
Psa. 71
:9
71:9
Do not cast me off in the time of
aold age;
When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
Psa. 71
:10
71:10
For my enemies speak concerning me,
And those who watch for my soul take
acounsel together,
Psa. 71
:11
71:11
Saying, God has forsaken him;
Pursue and lay hold of him, for there is no one to deliver
him.
Psa. 71
:12
71:12
O God, do not be far away from me;
My God, hasten to help me.
Psa. 71
:13
71:13
May those who are the adversaries to my soul
Be put to shame and consumed;
May those who seek my misfortune
Wrap themselves in reproach and humiliation.
Psa. 71
:14
71:14
But I will hope continually
And will add yet more to all Your praise.
Psa. 71
:15
71:15
My mouth will recount Your righteousness,
Your salvation, all day long;
For I do not know
its full numbers.
Psa. 71
:16
71:16
I will come with
the proof of the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah;
I will remind
men of Your righteousness, Yours alone.
Psa. 71
:17
71:17
O God, You have taught me from my youth;
And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds.
Psa. 71
:18
71:18
So even into
my aold age and grayheadedness,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I have declared Your strength
Unto the
next generation,
Your might unto everyone who is to come.
Psa. 71
:19
71:19
And Your righteousness, O God, is so high,
You who have done
agreat things.
O God,
bwho is like You?
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:20
71:20
You who have shown
1me Many great troubles
Will
arevive 1me again
And bring
1me up again
From the depths of the earth.
Psa. 71
:21
71:21
You will increase my greatness
And will turn
and comfort me.
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:22
71:22
I will also praise You with the harp,
I will praise Your
1faithfulness, my God;
I will sing psalms to You with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
Psa. 71
:23
71:23
My lips will give a ringing shout
When I sing psalms to You,
And my soul, which You have redeemed.
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:24
71:24
My tongue also will declare
Your righteousness all day long;
For they are put to shame, for they are confounded,
They who seek my misfortune.
