1In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! (Ps 31:1)2In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!3Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. (De 33:27; Ps 18:2; Ps 42:8; Ps 90:1; Ps 91:9)4Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man. (Ps 140:1; Ps 140:4)5For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. (Jer 14:8; Jer 17:13; Jer 50:7; 1Ti 1:1)6Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. (Ps 22:9; Ps 22:10)7I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. (Isa 8:18; 1Co 4:9)8My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day. (Ps 71:24)9Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent. (Ps 71:18)10For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together (Ps 41:7; Ps 56:6; Ps 83:5)11and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”12O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me! (Ps 10:1; Ps 40:13; Ps 70:5)13May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt. (Es 9:2; Ps 35:4; Ps 35:26; Ps 70:2; Ps 71:24; Ps 109:29)14But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. (Ps 71:5; Ps 71:22)15My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. (Ps 40:5; Ps 71:8; Ps 71:24)16With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.17O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.18So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. (Ps 71:9; Isa 46:4)19Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? (1Sa 12:24; Ps 35:10; Ps 36:5; Ps 126:2; Lu 1:49)20You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. (Ps 60:3; Ps 80:18; Ps 85:6; Ps 119:25; Ps 138:7; Ps 143:11; Ho 6:2)21You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.22I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. (2Ki 19:22; Ps 33:2; Ps 78:41; Ps 89:18; Isa 60:9)23My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. (Ps 34:22)24And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt. (Ps 35:28; Ps 71:8; Ps 71:13; Ps 71:15)