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Psalm 71 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

Prayer of an Old Man for Rescue.

Psa 71:1

In you, O LORD, I have put my trust and confidently taken refuge;

Let me never be [fn]put to shame.

Psa 71:2

In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;

Incline Your ear to me and save me.

Psa 71:3

Be to me a rock of refuge and a sheltering stronghold to which I may continually come;

You have given the commandment to save me,

For You are my rock and my fortress.

Psa 71:4

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked (godless),

From the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

Psa 71:5

For You are my hope;

O Lord GOD, You are my trust and the source of my confidence from my youth.

Psa 71:6

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;

You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.

My praise is continually of You.

Psa 71:7

I am as a wonder to many,

For You are my strong refuge.

Psa 71:8

My mouth is filled with Your praise

And with Your glory all day long.

Psa 71:9

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;

Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

Psa 71:10

For my enemies have spoken against me;

Those who watch for my life have consulted together,

Psa 71:11

Saying, “God has abandoned him;

Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

Psa 71:12

O God, do not be far from me;

O my God, come quickly to help me!

Psa 71:13

Let those who attack my life be ashamed and consumed;

Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

Psa 71:14

But as for me, I will wait and hope continually,

And will praise You yet more and more.

Psa 71:15

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness

And of Your [deeds of] salvation all day long,

For their number is more than I know.

Psa 71:16

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD [and in His strength];

I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

Psa 71:17

O God, You have taught me from my youth,

And I still declare Your wondrous works and miraculous deeds.

Psa 71:18

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,

Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,

Your power to all who are to come.

Psa 71:19

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,

You who have done great things;

O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

Psa 71:20

You who have shown [fn]me many troubles and distresses

Will revive and renew me again,

And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psa 71:21

May You increase my greatness (honor)

And turn to comfort me.

Psa 71:22

I will also praise You with the harp,

Your truth and faithfulness, O my God;

To You I will sing praises with the lyre,

O Holy One of Israel.

Psa 71:23

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You,

And my soul, which You have redeemed.

Psa 71:24

My tongue also will speak of Your righteousness all day long;

For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my injury.

AMP Footnotes
I.e. have my expectations in Your goodness be disappointed.
Another reading is us.
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