Psalms 71:2-20

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.

¹²God, be thou not made afar from me; my God, behold thou into mine help.

¹³Men that backbite my soul, be shamed, and fail they; and be they covered with reproof and shame, that seek evils to me.

¹⁴But I shall hope evermore; and I shall add to ever over all thy praising.

¹⁵My mouth shall tell thy rightful-ness or rightwiseness; all day thine health. For I knew not by literature, that is, by man’s teaching, but by God’s revelation,

¹⁶I shall enter into the powers of the Lord; Lord, I shall bethink on thy rightfulness or rightwiseness alone.

¹⁷God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and till to now; I shall tell out thy marvels.

¹⁸And till into eld age /into oldness, and the last age; God, forsake thou not me. Till I tell thine arm, or power, to each generation that shall come.

¹⁹Till I tell of thy might, and thy rightfulness or rightwiseness, God, till into the highest great deeds which thou hast done; God, who is like thee?

²⁰How great tribulations, many and evil, hast thou showed to me; and thou converted, hast quickened me, and hast again-brought me again from the depths of earth.