God the Rock of Salvation

71 In You, O Lord, I put my trust;Let me never be put to shame.² Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape;Incline Your ear to me, and save me.³ Be my strong refuge,To which I may resort continually;You have given the commandment to save me,For You are my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.⁵ For You are my hope, O Lord GOD;You are my trust from my youth.⁶ By You I have been upheld from birth;You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.My praise shall be continually of You.

⁷ I have become as a wonder to many,But You are my strong refuge.⁸ Let my mouth be filled with Your praiseAnd with Your glory all the day.

⁹ Do not cast me off in the time of old age;Do not forsake me when my strength fails.¹⁰ For my enemies speak against me;And those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together,¹¹ Saying, “God has forsaken him;Pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.”

¹² O God, do not be far from me;O my God, make haste to help me!¹³ Let them be confounded and consumedWho are adversaries of my life;Let them be covered with reproach and dishonorWho seek my hurt.

¹⁴ But I will hope continually,And will praise You yet more and more.¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of Your righteousnessAnd Your salvation all the day,For I do not know their limits.¹⁶ I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD;I will make mention of Your righteousness, of Yours only.

¹⁷ O God, You have taught me from my youth;And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.¹⁸ Now also when I am old and grayheaded,O God, do not forsake me,Until I declare Your strength to this generation,Your power to everyone who is to come.

¹⁹ Also Your righteousness, O God, is very high,You who have done great things;O God, who is like You?²⁰ You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,Shall revive me again,And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.²¹ You shall increase my greatness,And comfort me on every side.

²² Also with the lute I will praise You—And Your faithfulness, O my God!To You I will sing with the harp,O Holy One of Israel.²³ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You,And my soul, which You have redeemed.²⁴ My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long;For they are confounded,For they are brought to shameWho seek my hurt.