Psalms 71

¹A Psalm according to Solomon.

²Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

³Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

⁵And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.

⁶He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

⁷In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.

⁸And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.

⁹In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.

¹¹And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.

¹²For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.

¹³He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.

¹⁴He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.

¹⁵And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.

¹⁶And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.

¹⁷May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.

¹⁸Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.

¹⁹And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen.

²⁰The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end.

Psalms 71

¹In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

³Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art 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 thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

⁷I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

⁸Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁰For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

¹²O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

¹³Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

¹⁵My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

¹⁸Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

²⁰Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.