Psalms 71

1 In You, O YHWH, I have trusted, Do not let me be disappointed for all time.

By David, [a Psalm sung by] the sons of Jonadab, and the first that were taken captive. O Lord, I have hoped in thee: let me never be put to shame.

2 You deliver me in Your righteousness, And cause me to escape, Incline Your ear to me, and save me.

In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me.

3 Be a rock to me—a habitation, To go in continually, You have given command to save me, For You [are] my rock and my bulwark.

Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

4 O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man.

5 For You [are] my hope, O Lord YHWH, My trust from my youth.

For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, [thou art] my hope from my youth.

6 I have been supported from the womb by You, You cut me out from my mother’s bowels, My praise [is] continually in You.

On thee have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother thou art my protector: of thee is my praise continually.

7 I have been as a wonder to many, And You [are] my strong refuge.

I am become as it were a wonder to many: but thou art [my] strong helper.

8 My mouth is filled [with] Your praise, All the day [with] Your beauty.

Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn thy glory, [and] thy majesty all the day.

9 Do not cast me off at the time of old age, Do not forsake me according to the consumption of my power.

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

10 For my enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

For mine enemies have spoken against me; and they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together,

11 Saying, “God has forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.”

saying, God has forsaken him: persecute ye and take him; for there is none to deliver [him].

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

O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw nigh to my help.

13 They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered [with] reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,

Let those that plot against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail: let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonour.

14 And I continually wait with hope, And have added to all Your praise.

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

15 My mouth recounts Your righteousness, All the day Your salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

My mouth shall declare thy righteousness openly, [and] thy salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs [of men].

16 I come in [the] might of Lord YHWH, I mention Your righteousness—Yours alone.

I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of thy righteousness only.

17 God, You have taught me from my youth, And until now I declare Your wonders.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare thy wonders;

18 And also to old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to a generation, Your might to everyone that comes.

even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared thine arm to all the generation that is to come:

19 And Your righteousness, O God, [is] to the heights, Because You have done great things, O God, who [is] like You?

even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest [heavens, even] the mighty works which thou has done: O God, who is like to thee?

20 Because You have showed me many and sad distresses, You turn back—You revive me, And from the depths of the earth, You turn back—You bring me up.

What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

21 You increase my greatness, And You surround—You comfort me,

Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, and didst turn and comfort me, and broughtest me again out of the depths of the earth.

22 I also thank You with a vessel of stringed instrument, Your truth, O my God, I sing to You with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,

I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, [because of] thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to You, And my soul that You have redeemed,

My lips shall rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

24 My tongue also utters Your righteousness all the day, Because ashamed—because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon thy righteousness; when they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt.