Psalm 70–71

Psalm 70

¹A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former captives.

In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion:

²Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

³Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

⁴Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.

⁵For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.

⁶By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother’s womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:

⁷I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

⁸Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing thy glory; thy greatness all the day long.

⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

¹⁰For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together,

¹¹Saying: God hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

¹²O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.

¹³Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt.

¹⁴But I will always hope; and will add to all thy praise.

¹⁵My mouth shall shew forth thy justice; thy salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning,

¹⁶I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone.

¹⁷Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works.

¹⁸And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

¹⁹And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee?

²⁰How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

²¹Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me.

²²For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

²³My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to thee; and my soul which thou hast redeemed.

²⁴Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

Psalm 71

¹A psalm on Solomon.

²Give to the king thy judgment, O God, and to the king’s son thy justice: To judge thy people with justice, and thy poor with judgment.

³Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the hills justice.

⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, and he shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the oppressor.

⁵And he shall continue with the sun and before the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶He shall come down like rain upon the fleece; and as showers falling gently upon the earth.

⁷In his days shall justice spring up, and abundance of peace, till the moon be taken away.

⁸And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

⁹Before him the Ethiopians shall fall down: and his enemies shall lick the ground.

¹⁰The kings of Tharsis and the islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians and of Saba shall bring gifts:

¹¹And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.

¹²For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

¹³He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.

¹⁴He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight.

¹⁵And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Arabia, for him they shall always adore: they shall bless him all the day.

¹⁶And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth.

¹⁷Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

¹⁸Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.

¹⁹And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.

²⁰The praises of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.