Psalm 71 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

Psa 71:1In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!

Psa 71:2In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Psa 71:3Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Psa 71:4

Psa 71:4Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

Psa 71:5

Psa 71:5For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O LORD, from my youth.

Psa 71:6

Psa 71:6Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.

Psa 71:7

Psa 71:7I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.

Psa 71:8

Psa 71:8My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.

Psa 71:9

Psa 71:9Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

Psa 71:10

Psa 71:10For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together

Psa 71:11

Psa 71:11and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

Psa 71:12

Psa 71:12O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!

Psa 71:13

Psa 71:13May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

Psa 71:14

Psa 71:14But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.

Psa 71:15

Psa 71:15My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

Psa 71:16

Psa 71:16With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

Psa 71:17

Psa 71:17O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

Psa 71:18

Psa 71:18So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.

Psa 71:19

Psa 71:19Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

Psa 71:20

Psa 71:20You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.

Psa 71:21

Psa 71:21You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

Psa 71:22

Psa 71:22I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

Psa 71:23

Psa 71:23My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

Psa 71:24

Psa 71:24And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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