Psalms 71:9-15

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,