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title: Psalm 71
slug: kjv/psalm-71
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:18:14.052Z
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**1 **In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

**2 **Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

**3 **Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou *art* my rock and my fortress.

**4 **Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

**5 **For thou *art* my hope, O Lord GOD: *thou art* my trust from my youth.

**6 **By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise *shall be* continually of thee.

**7 **I am as a wonder unto many; but thou *art* my strong refuge.

**8 **Let my mouth be filled *with* thy praise *and with* thy honour all the day.

**9 **Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

**10 **For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

**11 **Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for *there is* none to deliver *him*.

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

**13 **Let them be confounded *and* consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered *with* reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

**14 **But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

**15 **My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness *and* thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers *thereof*.

**16 **I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, *even* of thine only.

**17 **O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

**18 **Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto *this* generation, *and* thy power to every one *that* is to come.

**19 **Thy righteousness also, O God, *is* very high, who hast done great things: O God, who *is* like unto thee!

**20 ***Thou*, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

**21 **Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

**22 **I will also praise thee with the psaltery, *even* thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

**23 **My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

**24 **My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.