Psalms 71:7-22

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.

²¹Thou hast multiplied thy great doing; and thou converted, hast comforted me.

²²For why and I shall acknowledge to thee, thou God, thy truth in the instruments of psalm; I shall sing in an harp to thee, that art the holy of Israel.