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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 71</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Prayer for Lifelong Protection and Help</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>In you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, I take refuge;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let me never be put to shame.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">incline your ear to me and save me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Be to me a rock of refuge,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a strong fortress,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17050a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> to save me,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for you are my rock and my fortress.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">from the grasp of the unjust and cruel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For you, O Lord, are my hope,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my trust, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, from my youth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Upon you I have leaned from my birth;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">it was you who took me from my mother’s womb.</span></span><br /><span class="text">My praise is continually of you.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I have been like a portent to many,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but you are my strong refuge.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>My mouth is filled with your praise,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and with your glory all day long.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Do not cast me off in the time of old age;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not forsake me when my strength is spent.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>For my enemies speak concerning me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and those who watch for my life consult together.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>They say, “Pursue and seize that person</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">whom God has forsaken,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for there is no one to deliver.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>O God, do not be far from me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O my God, make haste to help me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let those who seek to hurt me</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">be covered with scorn and disgrace.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But I will hope continually,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and will praise you yet more and more.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">of your deeds of salvation all day long,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">though their number is past my knowledge.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>I will come praising the mighty deeds of the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I will praise your righteousness, yours alone.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>O God, from my youth you have taught me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>So even to old age and gray hairs,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O God, do not forsake me,</span></span><br /><span class="text">until I proclaim your might</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to all the generations to come.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-17065b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">Your power </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum mid-line">19</span>and your righteousness, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">reach the high heavens.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">You who have done great things,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O God, who is like you?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You who have made me see many troubles and calamities</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">will revive me again;</span></span><br /><span class="text">from the depths of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you will bring me up again.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>You will increase my honor,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and comfort me once again.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I will also praise you with the harp</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for your faithfulness, O my God;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will sing praises to you with the lyre,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O Holy One of Israel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>My lips will shout for joy</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when I sing praises to you;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my soul also, which you have rescued.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>All day long my tongue will talk of your righteous help,</span><br /><span class="text">for those who tried to do me harm</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">have been put to shame, and disgraced.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 71:3">Psalm 71:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Compare 31.3: Heb <i>to come continually you have commanded</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 71:18">Psalm 71:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Compare Syr: Heb <i>to a generation, to all that come</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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