Psalm 71

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ In you, Lord, I have taken refuge.
May I not be put to shame forever.
² In your righteousness rescue me and deliver me.
Turn your ear to me and save me.
³ Be my rock and my refuge to which I can always go.
You give the command to save me,
because you are my high ridge and my stronghold.
⁴ My God, deliver me from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and the ruthless.

⁵ For you have been my hope, Lord God,
my confidence since my youth.
⁶ I have depended on^[a] you since I was in the womb.
You separated me from my mother’s body.
My praise to you is continuous.

⁷ I am like an evil omen to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
⁸ My mouth is filled with praise for you
and with your splendor all day long.

⁹ Do not throw me away in old age.
As my strength fails, do not forsake me.
¹⁰ For my enemies speak against me,
and those who seek my life conspire together.
¹¹ They say, “God has forsaken him.
Pursue him and seize him,
because there is no one to rescue him.”
¹² God, do not be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.
¹³ Let them be ashamed.
Let my murderous accusers be consumed.
Let those who seek to harm me be covered
    with shame and disgrace.

¹⁴ But as for me, I will always keep hoping.
I will keep adding to my praise for you.
¹⁵ My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
about your salvation all day long,
although I do not know how to tell all about it.
¹⁶ I will come and tell about your mighty deeds, Lord God.
I will commemorate^[b] your righteousness, yours alone.
¹⁷ God, you have taught me since my youth,
and even now I still declare your marvelous deeds.
¹⁸ Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
till I declare the strength of your arm to the next generation,
your power to all who are to come.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heights.
You have done great things.
God, who is like you,
²⁰ you who have made us see many troubles and disasters?
You will give us life again.
From the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.
²¹ You will increase my greatness and comfort me once again.

²² Yes, I will praise you, my God, for your faithfulness.
I will praise you with an instrument, with the harp.
I will make music to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips will shout with joy when I make music to you.
Even my soul, which you have redeemed, will shout.
²⁴ Indeed, my tongue will tell of your righteousness all day long.
How ashamed, how disgraced they are—
    those who are trying to harm me.