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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 71 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/71.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" 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href="../psalms/70.htm" title="Psalm 70">◄</a> Psalm 71 <a href="../psalms/72.htm" title="Psalm 72">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/psalms/71.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, do I take refuge;</span><br /><span class="indent">let me never be put to shame!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;</span><br /><span class="indent">incline your ear to me, and save me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be to me a rock of refuge,</span><br /><span class="indent">to which I may continually come;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you have given the command to save me,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you are my rock and my fortress.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you, O Lord, are my hope,</span><br /><span class="indent">my trust, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, from my youth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;</span><br /><span class="indent">you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">My praise is continually of you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have been as a portent to many,</span><br /><span class="indent">but you are my strong refuge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My mouth is filled with your praise,</span><br /><span class="indent">and with your glory all the day.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do not cast me off in the time of old age;</span><br /><span class="indent">forsake me not when my strength is spent.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For my enemies speak concerning me;</span><br /><span class="indent">those who watch for my life consult together</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and say, “God has forsaken him;</span><br /><span class="indent">pursue and seize him,</span><br /><span class="indent">for there is none to deliver him.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O God, be not far from me;</span><br /><span class="indent">O my God, make haste to help me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;</span><br /><span class="indent">with scorn and disgrace may they be covered</span><br /><span class="indent">who seek my hurt.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I will hope continually</span><br /><span class="indent">and will praise you yet more and more.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,</span><br /><span class="indent">of your deeds of salvation all the day,</span><br /><span class="indent">for their number is past my knowledge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With the mighty deeds of the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> I will come;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O God, from my youth you have taught me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So even to old age and gray hairs,</span><br /><span class="indent">O God, do not forsake me,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">until I proclaim your might to another generation,</span><br /><span class="indent">your power to all those to come.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your righteousness, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent">reaches the high heavens.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">You who have done great things,</span><br /><span class="indent">O God, who is like you?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You who have made me see many troubles and calamities</span><br /><span class="indent">will revive me again;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">from the depths of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">you will bring me up again.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You will increase my greatness</span><br /><span class="indent">and comfort me again.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will also praise you with the harp</span><br /><span class="indent">for your faithfulness, O my God;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I will sing praises to you with the lyre,</span><br /><span class="indent">O Holy One of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My lips will shout for joy,</span><br /><span class="indent">when I sing praises to you;</span><br /><span class="indent">my soul also, which you have redeemed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/71-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for they have been put to shame and disappointed</span><br /><span class="indent">who sought to do me hurt.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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