Psalms 71 In the O Lord, haue I put my trust let me neuer be put to confusyon, but rydde me, and delyuer me in thy righteousnesse: enclyne thyne eare vnto me, and saue me.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the O Lord, haue I put my trust let me neuer be put to confusyon, but rydde me, and delyuer me in thy righteousnesse: enclyne thyne eare vnto me, and saue me. ² Be thou my strong holde (where vnto I maye all waye resorte) thou hast promysed to helpe me: for thou art my house of defence and my castell. ³ Delyuer me, O my God, out of the hand of the vngodly, out of the hande of the vnrighteous and cruell man. ⁴ For thou, O Lorde God, art the thynge that I longe for, thou art my hope euen fro my youth. ⁵ Thorow the haue I bene holden vp euer sence I was borne thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe, my prayse shalbe all waye of the. ⁶ I am become as it were a monster vnto many: but my sure trust is in the. ⁷ Oh let my mouth be fylled with thy prayse and honour all the daye longe. ⁸ Cast me not awaye in the tyme of age, forsake me not when my strength fayleth me. ⁹ For myne enemies speake agaynst me: & they that laye wayte for my soule, take their councell together, sayenge: God hath forsaken hym, persecute hym, and take hym, for there is none to deliuer him. ¹⁰ Go not farre fro me, O God: my God, haste the to helpe me. ¹¹ Let them be confounded and peryshe, that are agaynst my soule: let them be couered with shame and dyshonoure, that seke to do me euell. ¹² As for me, I wyll paciently abyde all waye, and will prayse the more and more. ¹³ My mouth shall daylie speake of thy righteousnesse & saluacion, for I knowe no ende therof. ¹⁴ I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God, & will make mencion of thy righteousnesse onely. ¹⁵ Thou, O God, hast taught me fro my youth vp vntill now, therfore will I tell of thy wonderous worckes. ¹⁶ Forsake me not, O God, in myne olde age, when I am gray headed: vntyll I haue shewed thy strength vnto this generacion, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. ¹⁷ Thy righteousnes (O God) is very hie, and great thynges are they that thou hast done: O God, who is lyke vnto the? ¹⁸ O what greate troubles and aduersyties hast thou shewed me? and yet didest thou turne and refreshe me: yee, and broughtest me from the depe of the earth ¹⁹ Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on euery syde. ²⁰ Therfore will I prayse the and thy faythfulnesse, O God, playinge vpon an instrument of musick, vnto the wyll I synge vpon the harpe, O thou holy one of Israell. ²¹ My lyppes wylbe fayne, whan I synge vnto the: ²² and so will my soule whom thou hast deliuered. ²³ My tonge also shall talke of thy ryghteousnesse all the daye longe, ²⁴ for they are confounded and brought vnto shame, that seke to do me euell.