The Psalms, starting at chapter 70
Psalm 70
For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.
{70:1} Hurry, God, to deliver me.
Come quickly to help me, LORD.
{70:2} Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.
Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.
{70:3} Let them be turned because of their shame
Who say, "Aha! Aha!"
{70:4} Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let those who love your salvation continually say,
"Let God be exalted!"
{70:5} But I am poor and needy.
Come to me quickly, God.
You are my help and my deliverer.
LORD, don't delay.
Psalm 71
{71:1} In you, LORD, I take refuge.
Never let me be disappointed.
{71:2} Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
{71:3} Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
Give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
{71:4} Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
{71:5} For you are my hope, Lord GOD;
my confidence from my youth.
{71:6} I have relied on you from the womb.
You are he who took me out of my mother's womb.
I will always praise you.
{71:7} I am a marvel to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
{71:8} My mouth shall be filled with your praise,
with your honor all the day.
{71:9} Don't reject me in my old age.
Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
{71:10} For my enemies talk about me.
Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
{71:11} saying, "God has forsaken him.
Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."
{71:12} God, don't be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.
{71:13} Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.
Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
{71:14} But I will always hope,
and will add to all of your praise.
{71:15} My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
and of your salvation all day,
though I don't know its full measure.
{71:16} I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD.
I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
{71:17} God, you have taught me from my youth.
Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
{71:18} Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me,
until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
your might to everyone who is to come.
{71:19} Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens;
you have done great things.
God, who is like you?
{71:20} You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,
you will let me live.
You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
{71:21} Increase my honor,
and comfort me again.
{71:22} I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my
God.
I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
{71:23} My lips shall shout for joy!
My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
{71:24} My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,
who want to harm me.
Psalm 72
By Solomon.
{72:1} God, give the king your justice;
your righteousness to the royal son.
{72:2} He will judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
{72:3} The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
{72:4} He will judge the poor of the people.
He will save the children of the needy,
and will break the oppressor in pieces.
{72:5} They shall fear you while the sun endures;
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
{72:6} He will come down like rain on the mown grass,
as showers that water the earth.
{72:7} In his days, the righteous shall flourish,
and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
{72:8} He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
from the River to the ends of the earth.
{72:9} Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
{72:10} The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
{72:11} Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.
All nations shall serve him.
{72:12} For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
the poor, who has no helper.
{72:13} He will have pity on the poor and needy.
He will save the souls of the needy.
{72:14} He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
{72:15} They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of
Sheba.
Men shall pray for him continually.
They shall bless him all day long.
{72:16} There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
{72:17} His name endures forever.
His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
All nations will call him blessed.
{72:18} Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel,
who alone does marvelous deeds.
{72:19} Blessed be his glorious name forever!
Let the whole earth be filled with his glory!
Amen and amen.
{72:20} This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
BOOK III
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