Jubilee2000 - Psalms - 71

71:1  In thee, O LORD, have I waited; let me not be forever put to shame.

71:2  Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape; incline thine ear unto me and save me.

71:3  Be thou my strong habitation unto which I may continually resort; thou hast given [a] commandment that I should be saved because thou [art] my rock and my fortress.

71:4  Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the perverse and violent man.

71:5  For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD; [thou art] my security from my youth.

71:6  By thee have I been sustained from the womb; thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise [has been] continually of thee.

71:7  I am as a wonder unto many, but thou [art] my strong refuge.

71:8  Let my mouth be filled [with] thy praise [and with] thy glory all the day.

71:9  Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

71:10  For my enemies speak against me, and those that lay [in] wait for my soul take counsel together,

71:11  saying, God has forsaken him; persecute and take him for [there is] no one to deliver [him].

71:12  O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste for my help.

71:13  Let them be confounded [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered [with] reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

71:14  But I will continually wait and will add upon all thy praise.

71:15  My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day, for I know not the numbers [thereof].

71:16  I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.

71:17  O God, thou hast taught me from my youth and until now; I shall manifest thy wondrous works.

71:18  Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed [the strength] of thy arm unto [the next] generation [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come,

71:19  and thy righteousness, O God, unto excellence because thou hast done great things; O God, who [is] like unto thee!

71:20  [Thou] who hast caused me to see great and sore troubles, shalt return and quicken me and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

71:21  Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side.

71:22  I will also praise thee with [an] instrument of the psaltery, O my God; unto thee will I sing thy truth with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

71:23  My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing praises unto thee and my soul, which thou hast ransomed.

71:24  In the same manner my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness every day, for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.: