Psalm 71

¹In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age.

²In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

³Be to me for a rock — a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou.

⁴O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

⁵For Thou [art] my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.

⁶By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee [is] my praise continually.

⁷As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou [art] my strong refuge.

⁸Filled is my mouth [with] Thy praise, All the day [with] Thy beauty.

⁹Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

¹⁰For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

¹¹Saying, 'God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'

¹²O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make haste.

¹³They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered [with] reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,

¹⁴And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.