{"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/ylt/psalms/71","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T13:27:37.188Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":71,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":70,"nextChapter":72,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Be to me for a rock — a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark art Thou."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Saying, 'God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make haste."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered with reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness — Thine only."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And Thy righteousness, O God, is unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who is like Thee?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back — Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back — Thou bringest me up."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest — Thou comfortest me,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed — because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 71 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 71](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/71)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/71 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}