Psalms 71

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

In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

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

Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear unto 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 you my strong habitation, unto which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

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, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

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

For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust 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.

By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.

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

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

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

Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honour 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 in 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 speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

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

Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute 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, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for 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 them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

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

But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.

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

My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

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

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.

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

O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have I declared your wondrous works.

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.

Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one 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?

Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like unto you!

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.

You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall restore life in me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

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

You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

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 praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you 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 greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

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

My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.