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Psalms 71

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1In You, O Lord, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame. ✦ 2Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; Incline Your ear to me, and save me. ✦ 3Be my strong refuge, To which I may resort continually; You have given the commandment to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress. ✦ 4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ✦ 5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth. ✦ 6By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You. ✦ 7I have become as a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge. ✦ 8Let my mouth be filled with Your praise And with Your glory all the day. ✦ 9Do not cast me off in the time of 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 take counsel together, ✦ 11Saying, “God has forsaken him; Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.” ✦ 12O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! ✦ 13Let them be confounded and consumed Who are adversaries of my life; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor Who seek my hurt. ✦ 14But I will hope continually, And will praise You yet more and more. ✦ 15My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits. ✦ 16I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only. ✦ 17O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works. ✦ 18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come. ✦ 19Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high, You who have done great things; O God, who is like You? ✦ 20You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, Shall revive me again, And bring me up again from the depths of the earth. ✦ 21You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side. ✦ 22Also with the lute I will praise You— And Your faithfulness, O my God! To You I will sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel. ✦ 23My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, And my soul, which You have redeemed. ✦ 24My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are brought to shame Who seek my hurt. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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.

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  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

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

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

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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

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