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Psalms 71

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. ✦ 2In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me. ✦ 3Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress. ✦ 4Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless. ✦ 5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. ✦ 6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You. ✦ 7I have become a portent to many, but You are my strong refuge. ✦ 8My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long. ✦ 9Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. ✦ 10For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire, ✦ 11saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.” ✦ 12Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me. ✦ 13May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace. ✦ 14But I will always hope and will praise You more and more. ✦ 15My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure. ✦ 16I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone. ✦ 17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds. ✦ 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. ✦ 19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You? ✦ 20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up. ✦ 21You will increase my honor and comfort me once again. ✦ 22So I will praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. ✦ 23When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed. ✦ 24My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 71 ·18Ps 35 ·7Ps 22 ·7Ps 40 ·6Ps 145 ·5Ps 119 ·5Isa 49 ·4Ps 37 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 71 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 71YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 71David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 71Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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