Psalm 71

In te, Domine, speravi

¹ In you, O Lord, have I put my trust;*

let me never be put to shame.

² Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness;*

incline your ear to me and save me.

³ Be my rock and my refuge, where I may always return;*

you have promised to help me, for you are my stronghold and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly,*

out of the hand of the unrighteous and the cruel.

⁵ For you, O Lord God, are the one I long for;*

you are my hope, even from my youth.

⁶ Through you have I been upheld ever since I was born;*

you took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be always of you.

⁷ I have become a portent to many;*

but you are my refuge and my strength.

⁸ O let my mouth be filled with your praise,*

that I may sing of your glory all the day long.

⁹ Cast me not away in the time of old age;*

forsake me not when my strength fails me.

¹⁰ For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together.*

They say, "God has forsaken him; pursue him and take him, for there is none to deliver him."

¹¹ Go not far from me, O God;*

my God, make haste to help me.

¹² Let those who are my adversaries be confounded and perish;*

let those who seek to do me evil be covered with shame and dishonor.

¹³ As for me, I will always patiently abide,*

and will praise you more and more.

¹⁴ My mouth shall speak daily of your righteousness and salvation,*

for I know not the end of them.

¹⁵ I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God,*

and will make mention of your righteousness, yours alone.

¹⁶ You, O God, have taught me from my youth;*

even to this day I am telling of your wondrous works.

¹⁷ Forsake me not, O God, in my old age, when I am gray-headed,*

until I have proclaimed your strength to this generation, and your power to all those who are yet to come.

¹⁸ Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens;*

you have done great things. Who is like you, O God?

¹⁹ Oh, what great troubles and adversities you have shown me! And yet you have turned and refreshed me;*

indeed, you have brought me again from the depths of the earth.

²⁰ You have brought me to great honor*

and comforted me on every side;

²¹ Therefore will I praise you and your faithfulness, O God, playing on a stringed instrument;*

to you will I sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

²² My lips will rejoice when I sing to you,*

and so will my soul, which you have delivered.

²³ My tongue also shall speak of your righteousness all the day long,*

for they are confounded and brought to shame who seek to do me evil.

Psalms with similar themes:

Trust in God
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God our Refuge
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