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13 Let my adversaries be ashamed and consumed;[a]
    let those who seek my destruction
        be covered with scorn and disgrace.
14 As for me, I will hope continuously
    and will praise you more and more.
15 I[b] will declare your righteousness
    and your salvation every day,
though I do not fully understand
    what the outcome will be.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 71:13 So MT; LXX reads and let them expire; DSS 4QPsa reads and let them be consumed
  2. Psalm 71:15 Lit. My mouth
  3. Psalm 71:15 Lit. understand the sum

13 May my accusers(A) perish in shame;(B)
    may those who want to harm me
    be covered with scorn and disgrace.(C)

14 As for me, I will always have hope;(D)
    I will praise you more and more.

15 My mouth will tell(E) of your righteous deeds,(F)
    of your saving acts all day long—
    though I know not how to relate them all.

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