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Psalms 71

1 He praieth in faith, established by the word of the promise. 3 And confirmed by the work of God from his youth. 10 He complaineth of the cruelty of his enemies, 17 And desireth God to continue his graces toward him, 22 Promising to be mindful and thankful for the same.
1.In *athee, ô Lord, I trust: let me never be ashamed.
2.Rescue me and deliver me in thy brighteousness: incline thine ear unto me and save me.
3.Be thou my strong rock, whereunto I may alway resort: thou chast given commandment to save me: for thou art my rock, and my fortress.
4.Deliver me, ô my God, out of the hand dof the wicked: out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.
5.For thou art mine hope, ô Lord God, even my etrust from my youth.
6.Upon thee have I been staied from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shal be always of thee.
7.I am become as it were a fmonster unto many: but thou art my sure trust.
8.Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, and with thy glorie everie day.
9.Cast me not off in the time of gage: forsake me not when my strength faileth.
10.For mine enemies speak of me, and they that lay wait for my soul, take their counsel together,
11.Saying, hGod hath forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.
12.Go not far from me, ô God: imy God, haste thee to help me.
13.Let them be confounded and consumed that are against my soul: let them be covered with reproof and confusion, that seek mine hurt.
14.But I wil wait continually, and wil praise thee more and more.
15.My mouth shal daily rehearse thy righteousness, and thy salvation: kfor I know not the number.
16.I wil lgo forward in the strength of the Lord God, and wil make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
17.O God, thou hast taught me from my youth even until now: therefore wil I tel of thy wondrous works,
18.mYea, even unto mine old age and gray head, ô God: forsake me not, until I have declared thine arm unto this generation, and thy power to all them, that shal come.
19.And thy nrighteousness, ô God, I wil exalt on high: for thou hast done great things: oô God, who is like unto thee!
20.Which hast shewed me great troubles and padversaries, but thou wilt return and revive me, and wilt come again, and take me up from the depth of the earth.
21.Thou wilt increase mine honour, and return and comfort me.
22.Therefore wil I praise thee for thy qfaithfulness, ô God, upon instrument and viole: unto thee wil I sing upon the harp, ô Holie one of Israél.
23.My lips wil rejoyce when I sing unto thee, and my rsoul, which thou hast delivered.
24.My tongue also shal talk of thy righteousness daily: for they are confounded and brought unto shame, that seek mine hurt.

Notes

1-*.
Ps. 25.2.
1-a.
He prays to God with full assurance of faith, that he will deliver him from his adversaries.
2-b.
By declaring yourself true of promise.
3-c.
You have infinite means, & all creatures are at your commandment: therefore show some sign, whereby I shall be delivered.
4-d.
That is, from Absalom, Ahithophel and that conspiracy.
5-e.
He strengthens his faith by the experience of God’s benefits, who did not only preserve him in his mother’s belly, but took him thence, and ever since has preserved him.
7-f.
All the world wonders at me because of my miseries, aswel they in authority, as the common people, yet being assured of your favour I remained steadfast.
9-g.
You that did help me in my youth, when I had more strength, help me now so much the more in my old age and weakness.
11-h.
Thus the wicked both blaspheme God and triumph against his Saints, as though he had forsaken them, if he suffer them to fall into their hands.
12-i.
In calling him his God, he puts back the false reports of the adversaries, that said, God had forsaken him.
15-k.
Because your benefits toward me are innumerable, I can not but continually meditate and rehearse them.
16-l.
I will remain steadfast, being upheld with the power of God.
18-m.
He desires that as he has begun, he would so continue his benefits, that his liberality may have perfect praise.
19-n.
Your just performance of your promise.
19-o.
His faith breaks through all tentations, and by this exclamation he praises the power of God.
20-p.
As he confesses that God is the only author of his deliverance: so he acknowledges that these evils were sent upon him by God’s providence.
22-q.
He confesses that his long tarriance was well recompensed, when God performed his promise.
23-r.
For there is no true praising of God, except it come from the heart: and therefore he promises to delight in nothing, but wherein God may be glorified.