Psalm 71:12-24

New Living Translation

¹²O God, don’t stay away.
    My God, please hurry to help me.
¹³Bring disgrace and destruction on my accusers.
    Humiliate and shame those who want to harm me.
¹⁴But I will keep on hoping for your help;
    I will praise you more and more.
¹⁵I will tell everyone about your righteousness.
    All day long I will proclaim your saving power,
    though I am not skilled with words.^[a]
¹⁶I will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign Lord.
    I will tell everyone that you alone are just.

¹⁷O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood,
    and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.
¹⁸Now that I am old and gray,
    do not abandon me, O God.
Let me proclaim your power to this new generation,
    your mighty miracles to all who come after me.

¹⁹Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the highest heavens.
    You have done such wonderful things.
    Who can compare with you, O God?
²⁰You have allowed me to suffer much hardship,
    but you will restore me to life again
    and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
²¹You will restore me to even greater honor
    and comfort me once again.

²²Then I will praise you with music on the harp,
    because you are faithful to your promises, O my God.
I will sing praises to you with a lyre,
    O Holy One of Israel.
²³I will shout for joy and sing your praises,
    for you have ransomed me.
²⁴I will tell about your righteous deeds
    all day long,
for everyone who tried to hurt me
    has been shamed and humiliated.