Psalms 71

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

In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.

2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me.

Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

3 Be you my strong habitation, where I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

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

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

6 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.

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

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

I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.

My mouth will be full of your praise and glory all the day.

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

Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

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

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

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

O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

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

But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

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

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

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

I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

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

O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

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

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

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

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

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

You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.

I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

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

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.