# Psalm 71 
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1. In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! 
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2. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! 
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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. 
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4. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. 
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5. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. 
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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. 
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7. I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. 
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8. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. 
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9. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent. 
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10. For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together 
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11. and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.” 
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12. O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! 
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13. May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt. 
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14. But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. 
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15. My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. 
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16. With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. 
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17. O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. 
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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. 
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19. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? 
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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. 
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21. You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. 
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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. 
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23. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. 
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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. 

(ESV)