Psalm 71:1-24
71 In you, O Jehovah, I have taken refuge.+O may I never be ashamed.+
2 In your righteousness may you deliver me and provide me with escape.+Incline to me your ear and save me.+
3 Become to me a rock fortress into which to enter constantly.+You must command to save me,+For you are my crag and my stronghold.+
4 O my God, provide me with escape from the hand of the wicked one,+From the palm of the one acting unjustly and oppressively.+
5 For you are my hope,+ O Sovereign Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.+
6 Upon you I have supported myself from the belly;+You are the One severing me even from the inward parts of my mother.+In you my praise is constantly.+
7 I have become just like a miracle to many people;+But you are my strong refuge.+
8 My mouth is filled with your praise,+All day long with your beauty.+
9 Do not throw me away in the time of old age;+Just when my power is failing, do not leave me.+
10 For my enemies have said in regard to me,+And the very ones keeping watch for my soul have jointly exchanged counsel,+
11 Saying: “God himself has left him.+Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.”+
12 O God, do not keep far away from me.+O my God, do hurry to my assistance.+
13 May those be ashamed, may those come to their end, who are resisting my soul.+May those cover themselves with reproach and humiliation who are seeking calamity for me.+
14 But as for me, I shall wait constantly,+And I will add to all your praise.
15 My own mouth will recount your righteousness,+All day long your salvation,+For I have not come to know the numbers [of them].+
16 I shall come in grand mightiness,+ O Sovereign+ Lord Jehovah;I shall mention your righteousness, yours alone.+
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth on,+And until now I keep telling about your wonderful works.+
18 And even until old age and gray-headedness, O God, do not leave me,+Until I may tell about your arm to the generation,+To all those who are to come, about your mightiness.+
19 Your righteousness, O God, is up to the height;+As respects the great things that you have done,+O God, who is like you?+
20 Because you have made me* see many distresses and calamities,+May you revive me again;+And from the watery deeps* of the earth may you again bring me up.+
21 May you enlarge my greatness,+And may you surround [and] comfort me.+
22 I too, I shall laud you on an instrument of a stringed sort,+As regards your trueness, O my God.+I will make melody to you on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.+
23 My lips will cry out joyfully when I am inclined to make melody to you,+Even my soul that you have redeemed.+
24 Also, my own tongue, all day long, will utter in an undertone your righteousness,+For they have become ashamed, for they have become abashed, who are seeking calamity for me.+
Footnotes
^ Or, “the surging waters.” By a correction of M, “the lower (lowest) parts,” as in 63:9.
^ “Me,” MmarginLXXSyVg; M, “us.”
