Psalm 71

New Coverdale Version

In you, O Lord, have I put my trust; * let me never be put to shame.

Rescue me and deliver me in your righteousness; * incline your ear to me and save me.

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.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly, * out of the hand of the unrighteous and the cruel.

For you, O Lord God, are the one I long for; * you are my hope, even from my youth.

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.

I have become a portent to many; * but you are my refuge and my strength.

O let my mouth be filled with your praise, * that I may sing of your glory all the day long.

Cast me not away in the time of old age; * forsake me not when my strength fails me.

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.”

Go not far from me, O God; * my God, make haste to help me.

Let those who are my adversaries be confounded and perish; * let those who seek to do me evil be covered with shame and dishonor.

As for me, I will always patiently abide, * and will praise you more and more.

My mouth shall speak daily of your righteousness and salvation, * for I know not the end of them.

I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God, * and will make mention of your righteousness, yours alone.

You, O God, have taught me from my youth; * even to this day I am telling of your wondrous works.

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.

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; * you have done great things. Who is like you, O God?

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.

You have brought me to great honor * and comforted me on every side;

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.

My lips will rejoice when I sing to you, * and so will my soul, which you have delivered.

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.