{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/71","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:03:23.000Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":71,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":70,"nextChapter":72,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be you my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 71 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 71](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/71)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/71 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}