Psalms 71

1 In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.

In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

2 Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear unto me, and save me.

3 Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

Be you my strong habitation, unto which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

4 O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

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

5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.

6 You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.

7 I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

8 My mouth will be full of your praise and glory all the day.

Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honour all the day.

9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

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

10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

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

13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

14 But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

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

15 My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

16 I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.

17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have I declared your wondrous works.

18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

19 Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like unto you!

20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall restore life in me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

21 You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

22 I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.

23 Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

24 My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.