Psalm 70-72

Lexham English Bible

70 O God, make haste to deliver me.
O Yahweh, make haste to help me.
² Let them be ashamed and abashed
who seek my life.
Let them be repulsed and humiliated
who desire my harm.
³ let them turn back because of their shame,
those who say, “Aha! Aha!”
⁴ Let them rejoice and be glad in you,
all those who seek you.
Let them say continually, “God is great!”
those who love your salvation.
⁵ But I am poor and needy;
O God hasten to me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
O Yahweh, do not delay.

71 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
² In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me.
³ Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always;
you have ordained^[b] to save me,
because you are my rock and my fortress.
⁴ My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp^[c] of the evildoer and the oppressor,
⁵ because you are my hope,
O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
⁶ Upon you I have leaned from birth.^[d]
It was you who took^[e] me from the womb of my mother.
My praise is of you continually.
⁷ I have become a wonder to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
⁸ My mouth is filled with your praise,
with your glory all the day.
⁹ Do not cast me away in the time of old age;
when my strength fails do not abandon me.
¹⁰ For my enemies talk concerning me,
and those who watch for my life conspire together,
¹¹ saying, “His God has abandoned him.
Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer.”
¹² O God, do not be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.
¹³ Let them be ashamed; let them perish
who are my adversaries.^[f]
Let them wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace
who seek my harm.
¹⁴ But as for me, I will hope continually
and increase your praise.
¹⁵ My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
your salvation all day long,^[g]
though I do not know the full sum of them.
¹⁶ I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh.
I will make known^[h] your righteousness, yours only.
¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.
¹⁸ And even when I am old and gray,
O God, do not abandon me
until I proclaim your strength^[i] to this generation,
your power to every one that comes after.
¹⁹ And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
²⁰ You who have caused me^[j] to see many troubles and evils,
you will again revive me.^[k]
And from the depths of the earth
you will again bring me up.
²¹ You will increase my greatness,
and you will comfort me all around.^[l]
22 On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument,
and your faithfulness, O my God.
I will sing praises to you with a lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you,
and my soul, which you have redeemed.
²⁴ My tongue also
will speak of your righteousness all the day,
because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated
who seek my harm.

72 O God, give your judgments to the king,
and your righteousness to the king’s son.
² May he judge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice.
³ Let the mountains yield prosperity^[n] for the people,
and the hills in righteousness.
⁴ May he provide justice for the poor of the people,
save the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor.
⁵ May he live long^[o] while the sun endures^[p]
as long as the moon^[q] for all generations.^[r]
6 May he descend like rain on mown grass,
like showers watering the earth.
⁷ May what is right blossom in his days
and an abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
⁸ And may he rule from sea up to sea,
and from the River^[s] to the edges of the land.
⁹ Let the desert dwellers bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust.
¹⁰ Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute.
Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts,
¹¹ and let all kings bow down to him.
Let all nations serve him.
¹² Indeed he will deliver the needy who is crying for help,
and the afflicted who has no helper.
¹³ He will take pity on the helpless and needy,
and the lives of the needy he will save.
¹⁴ From oppression and from violence
he will redeem their lives,
and their blood will be precious in his eyes.
¹⁵ So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him,
and may prayers be offered for him continually.
May blessings be invoked for him all day long.^[t]
16 May there be an abundance of grain in the land
even on the top of the mountains.
May his crop^[u] sway like the trees of Lebanon,
and may those from the city blossom like the grass of the earth.
¹⁷ May his name endure forever.
May his name increase as long as the sun shines,^[v]
and let them be blessed in him.
Let all nations call him blessed.
¹⁸ Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel,
who alone does wonderful things.
¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever,
and may the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen and Amen.
²⁰ The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are completed.