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Psalms 71

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. ✦ 2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me. ✦ 3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. ✦ 4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ✦ 5For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth. ✦ 6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you. ✦ 7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. ✦ 8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long. ✦ 9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. ✦ 10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, ✦ 11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.” ✦ 12God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. ✦ 13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me. ✦ 14But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. ✦ 15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure. ✦ 16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone. ✦ 17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. ✦ 18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. ✦ 19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you? ✦ 20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth. ✦ 21Increase my honor, and comfort me again. ✦ 22I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. ✦ 23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you! ✦ 24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. ✦

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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.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    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

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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