Psalms 71:1-11

¹Lord, I hoped in thee; be I not shamed without end;

²in thy rightwiseness deliver thou me, and ravish me out. Bow down thine ear to me; and make me safe.

³Be thou to me into God a defender; and into a strengthened place, that thou make me safe. For thou art my steadfastness; and my refuge.

⁴My God, deliver thou me from the hand of the sinner; and from the hand of a man doing against the law, and of the wicked man.

⁵For thou, Lord, art my patience; Lord, thou art mine hope from my youth.

⁶In thee I am confirmed, that is, defended, from the womb; thou art my defender from the womb of my mother. My singing is evermore in thee;

⁷I am made as a great wonder to many men; and thou art a strong helper.

⁸My mouth be filled with praising; that I sing thy glory, all day thy great-ness.

⁹Cast thou not away me in the time of eld age /in the time of oldness; when my strength faileth, forsake thou not me.

¹⁰For mine enemies said of me; and they that kept my life made counsel together.

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him; pursue ye, and take him; for none there is that shall deliver.