Psalms 71

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1. 1LORD, I put my trust in you — let me never be put to confusion.
2. 2Deliver me in your righteousness and cause me to escape. Incline your ear to me and save me.
3. 3Be my strong dwelling place where I may continually come. You have given commandment to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
4. 4Deliver me, my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5. 5For you are my hope, Lord GOD. You are my trust from my youth.
6. 6By you I have been held up from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise will be continually of you.
7. 7I am as a wonder to many, but you are my strong refuge.
8. 8Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
9. 9Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
10. 10For my enemies speak against me, and those who lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
11. 11saying, 'God has forsaken him; persecute and take him, for there is none to deliver him.'
12. 12O God, be not far from me. O my God, make haste for my help.
13. 13Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.
14. 14But I will hope continually and will yet praise you more and more.
15. 15My mouth will show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day, for I do not know the numbers of them.
16. 16I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only.
17. 17O God, you have taught me from my youth, and to this day I have declared your wondrous works.
18. 18Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, until I have shown your strength to this generation and your power to everyone who is to come.
19. 19Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, you who have done great things. O God, who is like you!
20. 20You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, will revive me again and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
21. 21You will increase my greatness and comfort me on every side.
22. 22I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God. To you I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
23. 23My lips will greatly rejoice when I sing to you — and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24. 24My tongue also will talk of your righteousness all the day long, for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, who seek my hurt.