Book of Psalms, No. 71
Psalms 71 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 71 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ In you, O Jehovah, I have taken refuge.1
O may I never be ashamed.2 - ¶ In your righteousness may you deliver me and provide me with escape.3
Incline to me your ear and save me.4 - ¶ Become to me a rock fortress into which to enter constantly.5
You must command to save me,6
For you are my crag and my stronghold.7 - ¶ O my God, provide me with escape from the hand of the wicked one,8
From the palm of the one acting unjustly and oppressively.9 - ¶ For you are my hope,10 O Sovereign Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.11
- ¶ Upon you I have supported myself from the belly;12
You are the One severing me even from the inward parts of my mother.13
In you my praise is constantly.14 - ¶ I have become just like a miracle to many people;15
But you are my strong refuge.16 - ¶ My mouth is filled with your praise,17
All day long with your beauty.18 - ¶ Do not throw me away in the time of old age;19
Just when my power is failing, do not leave me.20 - ¶ For my enemies have said in regard to me,21
And the very ones keeping watch for my soul have jointly exchanged counsel,22 - ¶ Saying: “God himself has left him.23
Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.”24 - ¶ O God, do not keep far away from me.25
O my God, do hurry to my assistance.26 - ¶ May those be ashamed, may those come to their end, who are resisting my soul.27
May those cover themselves with reproach and humiliation who are seeking calamity for me.28 - ¶ But as for me, I shall wait constantly,29
And I will add to all your praise. - ¶ My own mouth will recount your righteousness,30
All day long your salvation,31
For I have not come to know the numbers [of them].32 - ¶ I shall come in grand mightiness,33 O Sovereign34 Lord Jehovah;
I shall mention your righteousness, yours alone.35 - ¶ O God, you have taught me from my youth on,36
And until now I keep telling about your wonderful works.37 - ¶ And even until old age and gray-headedness, O God, do not leave me,38
Until I may tell about your arm to the generation,39
To all those who are to come, about your mightiness.40 - ¶ Your righteousness, O God, is up to the height;41
As respects the great things that you have done,42
O God, who is like you?43 - ¶ Because you have made me[a] see many distresses and calamities,44
May you revive me again;45
And from the watery deeps[b] of the earth may you again bring me up.46 - ¶ May you enlarge my greatness,47
And may you surround [and] comfort me.48 - ¶ I too, I shall laud you on an instrument of a stringed sort,49
As regards your trueness, O my God.50
I will make melody to you on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.51 - ¶ My lips will cry out joyfully when I am inclined to make melody to you,52
Even my soul that you have redeemed.53 - ¶ Also, my own tongue, all day long, will utter in an undertone your righteousness,54
For they have become ashamed, for they have become abashed, who are seeking calamity for me.55
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “Me,” MmarginLXXSyVg; M, “us.”
- ^ Or, “the surging waters.” By a correction of M, “the lower (lowest) parts,” as in 63:9.
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 25:2; 31:1
- ^ Is 45:17; Je 17:18
- ^ Ps 144:2; 1Co 10:13
- ^ Ps 17:6; 34:15
- ^ Pr 18:10
- ^ Ps 44:4
- ^ 2Sa 22:2; Ps 18:2; 144:2
- ^ 2Sa 17:12; Ps 3:7; 17:9; 59:1; 140:4; Mt 6:13
- ^ 2Sa 19:9
- ^ Ps 39:7
- ^ 1Sa 17:45; Je 17:7; Lu 2:40; 2Ti 3:15
- ^ Ps 22:9; Is 46:3
- ^ Ps 139:16
- ^ Ps 34:1
- ^ Is 8:18; Zc 3:8; Lu 2:34; Ac 4:13; 1Co 4:9
- ^ Ps 62:7; 142:5; Je 16:19
- ^ Ps 51:15; 145:21; Heb 13:15
- ^ Ps 35:28; 145:2
- ^ Ps 92:14
- ^ Ps 73:26; Ec 12:3
- ^ 2Sa 17:1
- ^ Ps 83:3; Mt 26:4; 27:1
- ^ Ps 3:2; 42:10; Mt 27:43
- ^ 2Ch 32:13; Ps 7:2; Mt 27:42
- ^ Ps 35:22; 38:21
- ^ Ps 22:11; 70:1
- ^ 2Sa 17:23; Mt 27:5
- ^ 2Sa 18:9; Ps 109:29
- ^ Ps 43:5
- ^ Ps 35:28; 40:9
- ^ Ps 95:1; Re 7:10
- ^ Ps 40:5; 139:17; Ro 11:33
- ^ Is 40:31
- ^ Ps 68:20
- ^ Re 15:3
- ^ Ps 71:5
- ^ 2Sa 22:1; 1Ch 16:4; Ps 9:1; 66:16
- ^ 1Sa 4:15; Ps 37:25; 71:9
- ^ Ps 78:4
- ^ Ex 13:8; 1Ch 29:11
- ^ Ps 36:6; 57:10; 89:14
- ^ Ps 86:8; 89:7
- ^ Ex 15:11; Ps 72:18; 86:8; 89:6; Is 40:18; Je 10:7
- ^ 2Sa 12:11; Ps 60:3; 66:12; 88:6
- ^ Ps 80:18
- ^ Ps 40:2; 86:13
- ^ 2Sa 3:1; Ps 72:11; Is 9:7
- ^ 2Co 1:4
- ^ Ps 92:3; 150:3
- ^ Ps 25:10; 108:4; 138:2; 146:6; Re 15:3
- ^ 2Ki 19:22; Is 60:9
- ^ Ps 63:5; 104:33
- ^ Ge 48:16; 2Sa 4:9; Ps 103:4
- ^ De 11:19; Ps 71:8; Pr 10:20
- ^ Ps 35:26; 40:14; 71:13
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