| 71:1
| In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
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| 71:2
| Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine
ear unto me, and save me.
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| 71:3
| Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou
hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
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| 71:4
| Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of
the unrighteous and cruel man.
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| 71:5
| For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
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| 71:6
| By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me
out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
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| 71:7
| I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
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| 71:8
| Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
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| 71:9
| Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength
faileth.
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| 71:10
| For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul
take counsel together,
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| 71:11
| Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none
to deliver him.
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| 71:12
| O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
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| 71:13
| Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let
them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
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| 71:14
| But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
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| 71:15
| My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the
day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
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| 71:16
| I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy
righteousness, even of thine only.
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| 71:17
| O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared
thy wondrous works.
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| 71:18
| Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I
have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one
that is to come.
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| 71:19
| Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things:
O God, who is like unto thee!
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| 71:20
| Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me
again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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| 71:21
| Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
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| 71:22
| I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God:
unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
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| 71:23
| My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which
thou hast redeemed.
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| 71:24
| My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for
they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
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