Psalm 70-71

New American Standard Bible

Prayer for Help against Persecutors.

For the music director. A Psalm of David; for a memorial.

70 ^(A)God, hurry to save me;
Lord, hurry to help me!
²^(B)May those who seek my ^[a]life
Be put to shame and humiliated;
May those who delight ^[b]in my harm
Be turned back and dishonored.
³^(C)May those who say, “Aha, aha!” be ^[c]turned back
Because of their shame.

⁴May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
And may those who love Your salvation say continually,
“May God be exalted!”
⁵But ^(D)I am afflicted and needy;
^(E)Hurry to me, God!
You are my help and my savior;
Lord, do not delay.

Prayer of an Old Man for Rescue.

71 ^(F)In You, Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be put to shame.
²^(G)In Your righteousness rescue me and save me;
^(H)Extend Your ear to me and help me.
³^(I)Be to me a rock of ^(J)dwelling to which I may continually come;
You have given the ^(K)commandment to save me,
For You are ^(L)my rock and my fortress.
⁴^(M)Save me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
From the ^[d]grasp of the wrongdoer and the ruthless,
⁵For You are my ^(N)hope;
Lord ^[e]God, You are my ^(O)confidence from my youth.
⁶I have ^(P)leaned on you since my birth;
You are He who ^(Q)took me from my mother’s womb;
My ^(R)praise is continually ^[f]of You.

⁷I have become a ^(S)marvel to many,
For You are ^(T)my strong refuge.
⁸My ^(U)mouth is filled with Your praise
And with ^(V)Your glory all day long.
⁹Do not cast me away at the ^(W)time of my old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails.
¹⁰For my enemies have spoken ^[g]against me;
And those who ^(X)watch for my ^[h]life ^(Y)have consulted together,
¹¹Saying, “^(Z)God has abandoned him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is ^(AA)no one to save him.”

¹²God, ^(AB)do not be far from me;
My God, ^(AC)hurry to my aid!
¹³May those who are enemies of my soul be ^(AD)put to shame and consumed;
May they be ^(AE)covered with disgrace and dishonor, who ^(AF)seek ^[i]to injure me.
¹⁴But as for me, I will ^(AG)wait continually,
And will ^[j]^(AH)praise You yet more and more.
¹⁵My ^(AI)mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of ^(AJ)Your salvation all day long;
For I ^(AK)do not know the art of writing.
¹⁶I will come ^(AL)with the mighty deeds of the Lord ^[k]God;
I will ^(AM)make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

¹⁷God, You ^(AN)have taught me from my youth,
And I still ^(AO)declare Your wondrous deeds.
¹⁸And even when I am ^(AP)old and gray, God, do not abandon me,
Until I ^(AQ)declare Your ^[l]strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.
¹⁹^[m]For Your ^(AR)righteousness, God, reaches to the ^[n]heavens,
You who have ^(AS)done great things;
God, ^(AT)who is like You?
²⁰You who have ^(AU)shown ^[o]me many troubles and distresses
Will ^(AV)revive ^[p]me again,
And will bring ^[q]me up again ^(AW)from the depths of the earth.
²¹May You increase my ^(AX)greatness
And turn to ^(AY)comfort me.

²²I will also praise You with ^[r]^(AZ)a harp,
And Your ^[s]truth, my God;
I will sing praises to You with the ^(BA)lyre,
^(BB)Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips will ^(BC)shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my ^(BD)soul, which You have redeemed.
²⁴My ^(BE)tongue also will tell of Your righteousness all day long;
For they are ^(BF)put to shame, for they are humiliated who seek ^[t]my harm.

Footnotes

Psalm 70:2 Or soul
Psalm 70:2 Or to injure me
Psalm 70:3 Some mss appalled
Psalm 71:4 Lit palm
Psalm 71:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Psalm 71:6 Lit in
Psalm 71:10 Lit with reference to
Psalm 71:10 Lit soul
Psalm 71:13 Lit my injury
Psalm 71:14 Lit add upon all Your praise
Psalm 71:16 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Psalm 71:18 Lit arm
Psalm 71:19 Or And
Psalm 71:19 Lit height
Psalm 71:20 Another reading is us
Psalm 71:20 Another reading is us
Psalm 71:20 Another reading is us
Psalm 71:22 Lit an instrument of a harp
Psalm 71:22 Or faithfulness
Psalm 71:24 Or to injure me

Romans 8:22-39

New American Standard Bible

²²For we know that the whole creation ^(A)groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. ²³^(B)And not only that, but also we ourselves, having ^(C)the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves ^(D)groan within ourselves, ^(E)waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, ^(F)the redemption of our body. ²⁴For ^(G)in hope we have been saved, but ^(H)hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? ²⁵But ^(I)if we hope for what we do not see, through perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

Our Victory in Christ

²⁶Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for ^(J)we do not know what to pray for as we should, but ^(K)the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with ^[a]groanings too deep for words; ²⁷and ^(L)He who searches the hearts knows what ^(M)the mind of the Spirit is, because He ^(N)intercedes for the ^[b]saints according to the will of God.

²⁸And we know that ^[c]God ^[d]causes ^(O)all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are ^(P)called according to His purpose. ²⁹For those whom He ^(Q)foreknew, He also ^(R)predestined to become ^(S)conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the ^(T)firstborn among many brothers and sisters; ³⁰and these whom He ^(U)predestined, He also ^(V)called; and these whom He called, He also ^(W)justified; and these whom He justified, He also ^(X)glorified.

³¹^(Y)What then shall we say to these things? ^(Z)If God is for us, who is against us? ³²He who ^(AA)did not spare His own Son, but ^(AB)delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? ³³Who will bring charges against ^(AC)God’s elect? ^(AD)God is the one who justifies; ³⁴who is the one who ^(AE)condemns? Christ Jesus is He who ^(AF)died, but rather, was ^[e]^(AG)raised, who is ^(AH)at the right hand of God, who also ^(AI)intercedes for us. ³⁵Who will separate us from ^(AJ)the love of ^[f]Christ? Will ^(AK)tribulation, or trouble, or ^(AL)persecution, or ^(AM)famine, or ^(AN)nakedness, or ^(AO)danger, or sword? ³⁶Just as it is written:

“^(AP)For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷But in all these things we overwhelmingly ^(AQ)conquer through ^(AR)Him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither ^(AS)death, nor life, nor ^(AT)angels, nor principalities, nor ^(AU)things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from ^(AV)the love of God that is ^(AW)in Christ Jesus our Lord.