Psalm 71:1-24 LSV

[1] In You, O YHWH, I have trusted, || Do not let me be disappointed for all time. [2] You deliver me in Your righteousness, || And cause me to escape, || Incline Your ear to me, and save me. [3] Be a rock to me—a habitation, || To go in continually, || You have given command to save me, || For You [are] my rock and my bulwark. [4] O my God, cause me to escape || From the hand of the wicked, || From the hand of the perverse and violent. [5] For You [are] my hope, O Lord YHWH, || My trust from my youth. [6] I have been supported from the womb by You, || You cut me out from my mother’s bowels, || My praise [is] continually in You. [7] I have been as a wonder to many, || And You [are] my strong refuge. [8] My mouth is filled [with] Your praise, || All the day [with] Your beauty. [9] Do not cast me off at the time of old age, || Do not forsake me according to the consumption of my power. [10] For my enemies have spoken against me, || And those watching my soul have taken counsel together, [11] Saying, “God has forsaken him, || Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.” [12] O God, do not be far from me, || O my God, make haste for my help. [13] They are ashamed, they are consumed, || Who are opposing my soul, || They are covered [with] reproach and blushing, || Who are seeking my evil, [14] And I continually wait with hope, || And have added to all Your praise. [15] My mouth recounts Your righteousness, || All the day Your salvation, || For I have not known the numbers. [16] I come in [the] might of Lord YHWH, || I mention Your righteousness—Yours alone. [17] God, You have taught me from my youth, || And until now I declare Your wonders. [18] And also to old age and grey hairs, || O God, do not forsake me, || Until I declare Your strength to a generation, || Your might to everyone that comes. [19] And Your righteousness, O God, [is] to the heights, || Because You have done great things, || O God, who [is] like You? [20] Because You have showed me many and sad distresses, || You turn back—You revive me, || And from the depths of the earth, || You turn back—You bring me up. [21] You increase my greatness, || And You surround—You comfort me, [22] I also thank You with a vessel of stringed instrument, || Your truth, O my God, I sing to You with a harp, || O Holy One of Israel, [23] My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to You, || And my soul that You have redeemed, [24] My tongue also utters Your righteousness all the day, || Because ashamed—because confounded, || Have been those seeking my evil!