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          DASV: Psalm 71    

1 In you, O LORD, I take refuge;
      let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness deliver and rescue me;
      turn your ear to me, and save me.
3 Be a rock of refuge for me,
      a place I can always go;
      you have given the order to save me,
      for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
      out of the clutches of the cruel and unjust.

5 For you, O Lord, are my hope;
      O LORD, you have been my confidence
            since my childhood.
6 I have depended on you from birth;
      you took me from my mother's womb;
            my praise of you is continual.
7 I have become a portent to many,
      but you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth will be filled with your praise,
      and with your glory all day long.

9 Do not throw me aside in my old age;
      do not abandon me when my strength fails.
10 For my enemies speak against me,
      and those who stalk my life plot together,
11 saying, "God has forsaken him.
      Pursue and seize him,
            for there is no one to rescue him."
12 O God, do not stay far from me,
      O my God, hurry to help me.
13 Let my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
      let those who seek to harm me
      be covered with insults and disgrace.

14 But I will hope continually,
      and will praise you yet more and more.
15 My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
      and of your salvation all day long,
            though I cannot fathom its totality.
16 I will come proclaiming your mighty deeds, O Lord God;
      I will recount your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth;
      I am still declaring your wonderful works.
18 Yes, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God,
            do not abandon me,
      until I have declared your strength to the next generation,
            your power to everyone who is to come.

19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches the skies.
      You have done great things, O God,
            who is like to you?
20 You, who have made me see many troubles and much distress,
      but you will revive and bring me up again
            from the depths of the earth.
21 You will increase my greatness
      and surround me with compassion.

22 I will also praise you with the harp,
      for your faithfulness, O my God;
            to you I will sing praises with the lyre,
      O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to you,
      and my soul also, which you have ransomed.
24 My tongue will tell of your righteousness all day long;
      for they are put to shame,
      for they are confused,
            who sought to harm me.

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