Psalms 71:2-6

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;