a Ps 25:2, 3; 31:1-3; 71:1-3
b Ps 31:1
c Ps 17:6
d Ps 31:2, 3
e Deut 33:27; Ps 90:1; 91:9
f Ps 7:6; 42:8
g Ps 18:2
i Ps 140:1, 4
k Ps 39:7; Jer 14:8; 17:7, 13, 17; 50:7
m Ps 22:9
o Ps 22:10; Is 46:3
p Job 10:18; Ps 22:9
q Ps 34:1
s Is 8:18; 1 Cor 4:9
t Ps 61:3
u Ps 35:28; 63:5
v Ps 96:6; 104:1
w Ps 71:18; 92:14; Is 46:4
y Ps 56:6
aa Ps 31:13; 83:3; Matt 27:1
ab Ps 3:2
ac Ps 7:2
ad Ps 10:1; 22:11; 35:22; 38:21
ae Ps 38:22; 40:13; 70:1, 5
af Ps 35:4, 26; 40:14
ag Ps 109:29
ah Esth 9:2; Ps 71:24
aj Ps 130:7
al Ps 71:8
am Ps 35:28
an Ps 96:2
ao Ps 40:5
aq Ps 106:2
as Ps 51:14
at Deut 4:5; 6:7
au Ps 26:7; 40:5; 119:27
av Ps 71:9
aw Ps 22:31; 78:4, 6
az Ps 36:6; 57:10
bb Ps 126:2; Luke 1:49
bc Deut 3:24; Ps 35:10
bd Ps 60:3
bf Ps 80:18; 85:6; 119:25; 138:7; Hos 6:1, 2
bi Ps 86:13
bj Ps 18:35
bk Ps 23:4; 86:17; Is 12:1; 49:13
bm Ps 33:2; 81:2; 92:1-3; 144:9
bo Ps 33:2; 147:7
bp 2 Kin 19:22; Ps 78:41; 89:18; Is 1:4
bq Ps 5:11; 32:11; 132:9, 16
br Ps 34:22; 55:18; 103:4
bs Ps 35:28
bt Ps 71:13

Psalms 71

Prayer of an Old Man for Deliverance.

1 aIn You, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be ashamed.
 2 bIn Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
cIncline Your ear to me and save me.
 3 dBe to me a rock of ehabitation to which I may continually come;
You have given fcommandment to save me,
For You are gmy ▼
▼ Or crag
rock and my fortress.
 4 iRescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the ▼
▼ Lit palm
grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man,
 5For You are my khope;
O Lord ▼
▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God, You are my mconfidence from my youth.
 6 ▼
▼ Lit Upon You I have been supported
By You I have been osustained from my birth;
You are He who ptook me from my mother’s womb;
My qpraise is continually ▼
▼ Lit in
of You.

 7I have become a smarvel to many,
For You are tmy strong refuge.
 8My umouth is filled with Your praise
And with vYour glory all day long.
 9Do not cast me off in the wtime of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.
 10For my enemies have spoken ▼
▼ Lit with reference to
against me;
And those who ywatch for my ▼
▼ Lit soul
life aahave consulted together,
 11Saying, ab“God has forsaken him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is acno one to deliver.”

 12O God, addo not be far from me;
O my God, aehasten to my help!
 13Let those who are adversaries of my soul be afashamed and consumed;
Let them be agcovered with reproach and dishonor, who ahseek ▼
▼ Lit my injury
to injure me.
 14But as for me, I will ajhope continually,
And will ▼
▼ Lit add upon all Your praise
 , alpraise You yet more and more.
 15My ammouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of anYour salvation all day long;
For I aodo not know the ▼
▼ Lit numbers
sum of them.
 16I will come aqwith the mighty deeds of the Lord ▼
▼ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
God;
I will asmake mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

 17O God, You athave taught me from my youth,
And I still audeclare Your wondrous deeds.
 18And even when I am avold and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I awdeclare Your ▼
▼ Lit arm
strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.
 19 ▼
▼ Or And
For Your azrighteousness, O God, reaches to the ▼
▼ Lit height
heavens,
You who have bbdone great things;
O God, bcwho is like You?
 20You who have bdshown ▼
▼ Another reading is us
me many troubles and distresses
Will bfrevive ▼
▼ Another reading is us
me again,
And will bring ▼
▼ Another reading is us
me up again bifrom the depths of the earth.
 21May You increase my bjgreatness
And turn to bkcomfort me.

 22I will also praise You with ▼
▼ Lit an instrument of a harp
 , bma harp,
Even Your ▼
▼ Or faithfulness
truth, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the bolyre,
O bpHoly One of Israel.
 23My lips will bqshout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my brsoul, which You have redeemed.
 24My bstongue also will utter Your righteousness all day long;
For they are btashamed, for they are humiliated who seek ▼
▼ Or to injure me
my hurt.
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