Psalm 71–72

Psalm 71

¹In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge:

Let me never be put to shame.

²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me:

Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me.

³Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:

Thou hast given commandment to save me;

For thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,

Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah:

Thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶By 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.

⁷I am as a wonder unto many;

But thou art my strong refuge.

⁸My mouth shall be filled with thy praise,

And with thy honor all the day.

⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age;

Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁰For mine enemies speak concerning me;

And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him:

Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.

¹²O God, be not far from me;

O my God, make haste to help me.

¹³Let them be put to shame and consumed that are adversaries to my soul;

Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will hope continually,

And will praise thee yet more and more.

¹⁵My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness,

And of thy salvation all the day;

For I know not the numbers thereof.

¹⁶I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah:

I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth;

And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

¹⁸Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not,

Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation,

Thy might to every one that is to come.

¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high;

Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

²⁰Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles,

Wilt quicken us again,

And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹Increase thou my greatness,

And turn again and comfort me.

²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery,

Even thy truth, O my God:

Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp,

O thou Holy One of Israel.

²³My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto thee;

And my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long;

For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.

Psalm 72

A Psalm of Solomon.

¹Give the king thy judgments, O God,

And thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

²He will judge thy people with righteousness,

And thy poor with justice.

³The mountains shall bring peace to the people,

And the hills, in righteousness.

⁴He will judge the poor of the people,

He will save the children of the needy,

And will break in pieces the oppressor.

⁵They shall fear thee while the sun endureth,

And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶He will come down like rain upon the mown grass,

As showers that water the earth.

⁷In his days shall the righteous flourish,

And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.

⁸He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,

And from the River unto the ends of the earth.

⁹They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;

And his enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute:

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹¹Yea, all kings shall fall down before him;

All nations shall serve him.

¹²For he will deliver the needy when he crieth,

And the poor, that hath no helper.

¹³He will have pity on the poor and needy,

And the souls of the needy he will save.

¹⁴He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence;

And precious will their blood be in his sight:

¹⁵And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba:

And men shall pray for him continually;

They shall bless him all the day long.

¹⁶There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains;

The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:

And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

¹⁷His name shall endure for ever;

His name shall be continued as long as the sun:

And men shall be blessed in him;

All nations shall call him happy.

¹⁸Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel,

Who only doeth wondrous things:

¹⁹And blessed be his glorious name for ever;

And let the whole earth be filled with his glory.

Amen, and Amen.

²⁰The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.