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Psalm 71

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A psalm for David. Of the sons of Jonadab, and the former captives.

Psalmus David, filiorum Jonadab, et priorum captivorum.

1 τῷ Δαυιδ υἱῶν Ιωναδαβ καὶ τῶν πρώτων αἰχμαλωτισθέντων ὁ θεός ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισα μὴ καταισχυνθείην εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα 2 ἐν τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ῥῦσαί με καὶ ἐξελοῦ με κλῖνον πρός με τὸ οὖς σου καὶ σῶσόν με 3 γενοῦ μοι εἰς θεὸν ὑπερασπιστὴν καὶ εἰς τόπον ὀχυρὸν τοῦ σῶσαί με ὅτι στερέωμά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου εἶ σύ 4 ὁ θεός μου ῥῦσαί με ἐκ χειρὸς ἁμαρτωλοῦ ἐκ χειρὸς παρανομοῦντος καὶ ἀδικοῦντος 5 ὅτι σὺ εἶ ἡ ὑπομονή μου κύριε κύριος ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἐκ νεότητός μου 6 ἐπὶ σὲ ἐπεστηρίχθην ἀπὸ γαστρός ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου σύ μου εἶ σκεπαστής ἐν σοὶ ἡ ὕμνησίς μου διὰ παντός 7 ὡσεὶ τέρας ἐγενήθην τοῖς πολλοῖς καὶ σὺ βοηθὸς κραταιός 8 πληρωθήτω τὸ στόμα μου αἰνέσεως ὅπως ὑμνήσω τὴν δόξαν σου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν μεγαλοπρέπειάν σου 9 μὴ ἀπορρίψῃς με εἰς καιρὸν γήρους ἐν τῷ ἐκλείπειν τὴν ἰσχύν μου μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με 10 ὅτι εἶπαν οἱ ἐχθροί μου ἐμοὶ καὶ οἱ φυλάσσοντες τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐβουλεύσαντο ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ 11 λέγοντες ὁ θεὸς ἐγκατέλιπεν αὐτόν καταδιώξατε καὶ καταλάβετε αὐτόν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ῥυόμενος 12 ὁ θεός μὴ μακρύνῃς ἀπ' ἐμοῦ ὁ θεός μου εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου πρόσχες 13 αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἐκλιπέτωσαν οἱ ἐνδιαβάλλοντες τὴν ψυχήν μου περιβαλέσθωσαν αἰσχύνην καὶ ἐντροπὴν οἱ ζητοῦντες τὰ κακά μοι 14 ἐγὼ δὲ διὰ παντὸς ἐλπιῶ καὶ προσθήσω ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν αἴνεσίν σου 15 τὸ στόμα μου ἐξαγγελεῖ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν σωτηρίαν σου ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνων γραμματείας 16 εἰσελεύσομαι ἐν δυναστείᾳ κυρίου κύριε μνησθήσομαι τῆς δικαιοσύνης σου μόνου 17 ἐδίδαξάς με ὁ θεός ἐκ νεότητός μου καὶ μέχρι νῦν ἀπαγγελῶ τὰ θαυμάσιά σου 18 καὶ ἕως γήρους καὶ πρεσβείου ὁ θεός μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με ἕως ἂν ἀπαγγείλω τὸν βραχίονά σου πάσῃ τῇ γενεᾷ τῇ ἐρχομένῃ τὴν δυναστείαν σου καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου 19 ὁ θεός ἕως ὑψίστων ἃ ἐποίησας μεγαλεῖα ὁ θεός τίς ὅμοιός σοι 20 ὅσας ἔδειξάς μοι θλίψεις πολλὰς καὶ κακάς καὶ ἐπιστρέψας ἐζωοποίησάς με καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς πάλιν ἀνήγαγές με 21 ἐπλεόνασας τὴν μεγαλοσύνην σου καὶ ἐπιστρέψας παρεκάλεσάς με καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς πάλιν ἀνήγαγές με 22 καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι ἐν σκεύει ψαλμοῦ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου ὁ θεός ψαλῶ σοι ἐν κιθάρᾳ ὁ ἅγιος τοῦ Ισραηλ 23 ἀγαλλιάσονται τὰ χείλη μου ὅταν ψάλω σοι καὶ ἡ ψυχή μου ἣν ἐλυτρώσω 24 ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἡ γλῶσσά μου ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν μελετήσει τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου ὅταν αἰσχυνθῶσιν καὶ ἐντραπῶσιν οἱ ζητοῦντες τὰ κακά μοι

n you, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion: 2 Deliver me in your justice, and rescue me. Incline your ear unto me, and save me. 3 Be unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that you may make me safe. For you are my firmament and my refuge. 4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust. 5 For you are my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth. 6 By you have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb you are my protector. Of you I shall continually sing: 7 I have become unto many as a wonder, but you are a strong helper. 8 Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may sing your glory; your greatness all the day long. 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not forsake me. 10 For my enemies have spoken against me; and they that watched my soul have consulted together, 11 saying: God has forsaken him: pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him. 12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste to my help. 13 Let them be confounded and come to nothing that detract my soul; let them be covered with confusion and blame that seek my hurt. 14 But I will always hope; and will add to all your praise. 15 My mouth shall show forth your justice; your salvation all the day long. Because I have not known learning, 16 I will enter into the powers of the Lord: O Lord, I will be mindful of your justice alone. 17 You have taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare your wonderful works. 18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I show forth your arm to all the generation that is to come: Your power, 19 and your justice, O God, even to the highest great things you have done: O God, who is like to you? 20 How great troubles have you shown me, many and grievous: and turning you have brought me to life, and have brought me back again from the depths of the earth: 21 You have multiplied your magnificence; and turning to me you have comforted me. 22 For I will also confess to you your truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to you with the harp, you holy one of Israel. 23 My lips shall greatly rejoice, when I shall sing to you; and my soul which you have redeemed. 24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on your justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

1 In te, Domine, speravi; non confundar in æternum. 2 In justitia tua libera me, et eripe me : inclina ad me aurem tuam, et salva me. 3 Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum munitum, ut salvum me facias : quoniam firmamentum meum et refugium meum es tu. 4 Deus meus, eripe me de manu peccatoris, et de manu contra legem agentis, et iniqui: 5 quoniam tu es patientia mea, Domine; Domine, spes mea a juventute mea. 6 In te confirmatus sum ex utero; de ventre matris meæ tu es protector meus; in te cantatio mea semper. 7 Tamquam prodigium factus sum multis; et tu adjutor fortis. 8 Repleatur os meum laude, ut cantem gloriam tuam, tota die magnitudinem tuam. 9 Ne projicias me in tempore senectutis; cum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me. 10 Quia dixerunt inimici mei mihi, et qui custodiebant animam meam consilium fecerunt in unum, 11 dicentes : Deus dereliquit eum : persequimini et comprehendite eum, quia non est qui eripiat. 12 Deus, ne elongeris a me; Deus meus, in auxilium meum respice. 13 Confundantur et deficiant detrahentes animæ meæ; operiantur confusione et pudore qui quærunt mala mihi. 14 Ego autem semper sperabo, et adjiciam super omnem laudem tuam. 15 Os meum annuntiabit justitiam tuam, tota die salutare tuum. Quoniam non cognovi litteraturam, 16 introibo in potentias Domini; Domine, memorabor justitiæ tuæ solius. 17 Deus, docuisti me a juventute mea; et usque nunc pronuntiabo mirabilia tua. 18 Et usque in senectam et senium, Deus, ne derelinquas me, donec annuntiem brachium tuum generationi omni quæ ventura est, potentiam tuam, 19 et justitiam tuam, Deus, usque in altissima; quæ fecisti magnalia, Deus : quis similis tibi? 20 Quantas ostendisti mihi tribulationes multas et malas! et conversus vivificasti me, et de abyssis terræ iterum reduxisti me. 21 Multiplicasti magnificentiam tuam; et conversus consolatus es me. 22 Nam et ego confitebor tibi in vasis psalmi veritatem tuam, Deus; psallam tibi in cithara, sanctus Israël. 23 Exsultabunt labia mea cum cantavero tibi; et anima mea quam redemisti. 24 Sed et lingua mea tota die meditabitur justitiam tuam, cum confusi et reveriti fuerint qui quærunt mala mihi.

Of the sons of Jonadab... The Rechabites, of whom see Jeremiah 35. By this addition of the seventy-two interpreters, we gather that this psalm was usually sung in the synagogue, in the person of the Rechabites, and of those who were first carried away into captivity. (Challoner)
Learning... As much as to say, I build not upon human learning, but only on the power and justice of God. (Challoner)