Psaumes 71.20
English standard version

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¹ In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
² In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
³ Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
⁴ Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
⁵ For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
⁶ Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.
⁷ I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
⁸ My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
⁹ Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
¹⁰ For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
¹¹ and say, God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.
¹² O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
¹³ May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.
¹⁴ But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
¹⁵ My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
¹⁶ With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
¹⁷ O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
¹⁸ So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
²⁰ You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
²¹ You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.
²² I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.
²⁴ And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.