Psalm 71

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.

²Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

²in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

⁶For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

⁵They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

¹⁸Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

¹A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.

⁶I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

¹I love the Lord, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.

²Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

¹⁷You have heard, O Lord, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,

¹⁸to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.

¹Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

¹⁰The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.

²⁷The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’

²Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

³For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

¹¹For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

¹²They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

⁹Because you have made the Lord your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.

²Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

²who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

⁸Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

⁹from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

¹³Arise, O Lord, confront them! Bring them to their knees; deliver me from the wicked by Your sword,

¹Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

²I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

²¹After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

⁷But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.

⁷And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

⁸¹My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

¹⁷O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

⁴⁵But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

⁴⁶This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

⁹Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

⁹Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

¹⁵My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

¹⁶Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

¹Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The Lord called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.

⁵And now says the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him—for I am honored in the sight of the Lord, and My God is My strength—

¹⁸Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

⁷My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.

¹³When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they marveled and took note that these men had been with Jesus.

⁹For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

¹⁹O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

⁸through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

⁹unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

²⁸Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.

²I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

¹Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

¹⁵My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

²⁴My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

¹²For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.

¹⁸Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

¹⁰The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

¹³Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

³With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

⁶They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

¹³For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

³²Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

³³the Lord will not leave them in their power or let them be condemned under judgment.

¹⁰For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

³At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,

⁴and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.

²or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

²²Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

⁴⁶About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

²Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

¹³Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?

¹⁴Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?

¹⁵Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I have made, very good. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

²¹Do not forsake me, O Lord; be not far from me, O my God.

²²Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

²²O Lord, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

⁵But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay.

¹⁸Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

¹Why, O Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

¹¹But the Lord is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

²⁴My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.

²⁹May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

⁴May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

¹¹Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

³And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.

⁷O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

²⁶It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

⁶I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

³⁵So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.

⁵Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

²⁸Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.

⁸My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.

¹⁷How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

¹⁸If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

⁵the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

⁶They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

⁹and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

¹¹The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.

³³But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

¹²I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.

⁹How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

¹⁰²I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

⁵For You are my hope, O Lord God, my confidence from my youth.

⁵See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

³⁶Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

³⁷David added, “The Lord, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the Lord be with you.”

⁹But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

⁴Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

⁴We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the Lord and His might and the wonders He has performed.

⁹Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

⁴One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—

⁵the glorious splendor of Your majesty. And I will meditate on Your wondrous works.

⁶that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children

¹⁴In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁵And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

¹⁰All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O Lord, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

⁵Your loving devotion, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.

⁶Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

⁹“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁰For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.

¹¹Who among the gods is like You, O Lord? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

¹⁸To whom will you liken God? To what image will you compare Him?

⁷If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.

¹Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

²After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

³You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

¹³For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

¹²Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord God says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

¹³Then you, My people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

¹Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

¹In that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

¹⁷Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

³⁵You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.

⁴who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

⁵For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

¹⁰Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.

¹A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

²to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night

²Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

²²Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

¹⁸Surely our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

⁶Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

¹⁸yet I will exult in the Lord; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!

¹⁹God the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

⁴who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

³³I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

⁴⁶Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,

⁴⁷and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!

⁹And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

²²The Lord redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

⁹But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

¹³May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.

³⁷I pursued my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

³⁸I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

²⁵For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

¹¹My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

²⁸Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.

¹⁹Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.