Psalm 71 | Liturgical Calendar

1

In you, O Lord, have I put my trust; *

let me never be put to shame.

2

Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; *

incline your ear to me and save me.

3

Be my rock and my refuge, where I may always return; *

you have promised to help me, for you are my stronghold and my fortress.

4

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, *

out of the hand of the unrighteous and the cruel.

5

For you, O Lord God, are the one I long for; *

you are my hope, even from my youth.

6

Through you have I been upheld ever since I was born; *

you took me out of my mother’s womb; my praise shall be always of you.

7

I have become a portent to many; *

but you are my refuge and my strength.

8

O let my mouth be filled with your praise *

that I may sing of your glory all the day long.

9

Cast me not away in the time of old age; *

forsake me not when my strength fails me.

10

For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together. *

They say, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

11

Go not far from me, O God; *

my God, make haste to help me.

12

Let those who are my adversaries be confounded and perish; *

let those who seek to do me evil be covered with shame and dishonor.

13

As for me, I will always patiently abide, *

and will praise you more and more.

14

My mouth shall speak daily of your righteousness and salvation, *

for I know not the end of them.

15

I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God, *

and will make mention of your righteousness, yours alone.

16

You, O God, have taught me from my youth, *

even to this day I am telling of your wondrous works.

17

Forsake me not, O God, in my old age, when I am gray-headed, *

until I have proclaimed your strength to this generation, and your power to all those who are yet to come.

18

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; *

you have done great things. Who is like you, O God?

19

Oh, what great troubles and adversities you have shown me! And yet you have turned and refreshed me; *

indeed, you have brought me again from the depths of the earth.

20

You have brought me to great honor *

and comforted me on every side;

21

Therefore will I praise you and your faithfulness, O God, playing on a stringed instrument; *

to you will I sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

22

My lips will rejoice when I sing to you, *

and so will my soul, which you have delivered.

23

My tongue also shall speak of your righteousness all the day long, *

for they are confounded and brought to shame who seek to do me evil.