Psalms 71:2-15

²In your faithfulness save me and rescue me, bend your ear to me and save me.

³Be to me a rock of defence, a fortified house, to save me; for my rock and my fortress are you.

⁴Save me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel.

⁵For you, Lord, are my hope, in whom from my youth I have trusted.

⁶On you have I leaned from my birth; from my mother's womb it was you who did draw me. In you is my hope evermore.

⁷I have been as a wonder to many, for you are my refuge and strength.

⁸All the day long my mouth is filled with your praise and your glory.

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

¹⁰For my foes whisper against me, they who watch me take counsel together;

¹¹“God has left him,” they say: “pursue and seize him, for he is helpless.”

¹²O God, be not far from me, haste, O my God, to my help.

¹³Put my foes to shame and dishonour, with insult and shame be they covered.

¹⁴But I will never stop hoping, and more and yet more will I praise you.

¹⁵All the day long shall my mouth tell your faithfulness and your salvation, though I know not how they may be counted.