Psalms 71:1–24

¹In you, O Jehovah, I have taken refuge.
O may I never be ashamed.

²In your righteousness may you deliver me and provide me with escape.
Incline to me your ear and save me.

³Become to me a rock fortress into which to enter constantly.
You must command to save me,
For you are my crag and my stronghold.

⁴O my God, provide me with escape from the hand of the wicked one,
From the palm of the one acting unjustly and oppressively.

⁵For you are my hope, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.

⁶Upon 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.

⁷I have become just like a miracle to many people;
But you are my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth is filled with your praise,
All day long with your beauty.

⁹Do not throw me away in the time of old age;
Just when my power is failing, do not leave me.

¹⁰For my enemies have said in regard to me,
And the very ones keeping watch for my soul have jointly exchanged counsel,
¹¹Saying: “God himself has left him.
Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.”

¹²O God, do not keep far away from me.
O my God, do hurry to my assistance.

¹³May 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.

¹⁴But as for me, I shall wait constantly,
And I will add to all your praise.

¹⁵My own mouth will recount your righteousness,
All day long your salvation,
For I have not come to know the numbers [of them].

¹⁶I shall come in grand mightiness, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah;
I shall mention your righteousness, yours alone.

¹⁷O God, you have taught me from my youth on,
And until now I keep telling about your wonderful works.

¹⁸And 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.

¹⁹Your righteousness, O God, is up to the height;
As respects the great things that you have done,
O God, who is like you?

²⁰Because 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.

²¹May you enlarge my greatness,
And may you surround [and] comfort me.

²²I 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.

²³My lips will cry out joyfully when I am inclined to make melody to you,
Even my soul that you have redeemed.

²⁴Also, 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.