Psalms Chapter 71

71 : 1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

71 : 2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me.

71 : 3 Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are 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 unrighteous and cruel man.

71 : 5 For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.

71 : 6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.

71 : 7 I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.

71 : 8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.

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

71 : 10 For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

71 : 11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none 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 dishonor that seek my hurt.

71 : 14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.

71 : 15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your 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 your righteousness, even of your only.

71 : 17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.

71 : 18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

71 : 19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!

71 : 20 You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

71 : 21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

71 : 22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.

71 : 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

71 : 24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.