chapter_Psalm_71
Psalm 71:1: In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age. Psalm 71:2: In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me. Psalm 71:3: Be to me for a rock &#8212; a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark art Thou. Psalm 71:4: O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent. Psalm 71:5: For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth. Psalm 71:6: By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually. Psalm 71:7: As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge. Psalm 71:8: Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty. Psalm 71:9: Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not. Psalm 71:10: For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together, Psalm 71:11: Saying, 'God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.' Psalm 71:12: O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make haste. Psalm 71:13: They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered with reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil, Psalm 71:14: And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise. Psalm 71:15: My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. Psalm 71:16: I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness &#8212; Thine only. Psalm 71:17: God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. Psalm 71:18: And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might. Psalm 71:19: And Thy righteousness, O God, is unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who is like Thee? Psalm 71:20: Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back &#8212; Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back &#8212; Thou bringest me up. Psalm 71:21: Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest &#8212; Thou comfortest me, Psalm 71:22: I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel, Psalm 71:23: My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed, Psalm 71:24: My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed &#8212; because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!
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