Psalm 71

New King James Version

God the Rock of Salvation

71 In ^(A)You, O Lord, I put my trust;
Let me never be put to shame.
²^(B)Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;
^(C)Incline Your ear to me, and save me.
³^(D)Be my ^[a]strong refuge,
To which I may resort continually;
You have given the ^(E)commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

⁴^(F)Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For You are ^(G)my hope, O Lord God;
You are my trust from my youth.
⁶^(H)By You I have been ^[b]upheld from birth;
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
My praise shall be continually of You.

⁷^(I)I have become as a wonder to many,
But You are my strong refuge.
⁸Let ^(J)my mouth be filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all the day.

⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
¹⁰For my enemies speak against me;
And those who lie in wait for my life ^(K)take counsel together,
¹¹Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

¹²^(L)O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, ^(M)make haste to help me!
¹³Let them be ^[c]confounded and consumed
Who are adversaries of my life;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor
Who seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.
¹⁵My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And Your salvation all the day,
For I do not know their limits.
¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my ^(N)youth;
And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
¹⁸Now also ^(O)when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.

¹⁹Also ^(P)Your righteousness, O God, is ^[d]very high,
You who have done great things;
^(Q)O God, who is like You?
²⁰^(R)You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
^(S)Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹You shall increase my greatness,
And comfort me on every side.

²²Also ^(T)with the lute I will praise You—
And Your faithfulness, O my God!
To You I will sing with the harp,
O ^(U)Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,
And ^(V)my soul, which You have redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;
For they are confounded,
For they are brought to shame
Who seek my hurt.

Footnotes

Psalm 71:3 Lit. rock of refuge or rock of habitation
Psalm 71:6 sustained from the womb
Psalm 71:13 ashamed
Psalm 71:19 great, lit. to the height of heaven

Genesis 13

New King James Version

Abram Inherits Canaan

13 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and ^(A)Lot with him, ^(B)to the ^[a]South. ²^(C)Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. ³And he went on his journey ^(D)from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, ⁴to the ^(E)place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram ^(F)called on the name of the Lord.

⁵Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶Now ^(G)the land was not able to ^[b]support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was ^(H)strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. ^(I)The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.

⁸So Abram said to Lot, ^(J)“Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. ⁹^(K)Is not the whole land before you? Please ^(L)separate from me. ^(M)If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

¹⁰And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ^(N)the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^(O)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^(P)like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^(Q)Zoar. ¹¹Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^(R)dwelt in the cities of the plain and ^(S)pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. ¹³But the men of Sodom ^(T)were exceedingly wicked and ^(U)sinful against the Lord.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ^(V)had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—^(W)northward, southward, eastward, and westward; ¹⁵for all the land which you see ^(X)I give to you and ^(Y)your ^[c]descendants forever. ¹⁶And ^(Z)I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. ¹⁷Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

¹⁸^(AA)Then Abram moved his tent, and went and ^(AB)dwelt by ^[d]the terebinth trees of Mamre, ^(AC)which are in Hebron, and built an ^(AD)altar there to the Lord.