Psalm 71

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹ ¶ In thee, O LORD, have I waited; let me not be forever put to shame.

² Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape; incline thine ear unto me and save me.

³ Be thou my strong habitation unto which I may continually resort; thou hast given a commandment that I should be saved because thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the perverse and violent man.

⁵ For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD; thou art my security from my youth.

⁶ By thee have I been sustained from the womb; thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels; my praise has been continually of thee.

⁷ I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge.

⁸ Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy glory all the day.

⁹ Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

¹⁰ For my enemies speak against me, and those that lay in wait for my soul take counsel together,

¹¹ saying, God has forsaken him; persecute and take him for there is no one to deliver him.

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

¹³ 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 continually wait and will add upon all thy praise.

¹⁵ My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers thereof.

¹⁶ I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth and until now; I shall manifest thy wondrous works.

¹⁸ Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed the strength of thy arm unto the next generation and thy power to every one that is to come,

¹⁹ and thy righteousness, O God, unto excellence because thou hast done great things; O God, who is like unto thee!

²⁰ Thou who hast caused me to see great and sore troubles, shalt return and quicken me and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹ Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side.

²² I will also praise thee with an instrument of the psaltery, O my God; unto thee will I sing thy truth with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

²³ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee and my soul, which thou hast ransomed.

²⁴ In the same manner my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness every day, for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.