Psalm 71:1-5

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

1 i In you, O Lord, do I take 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 to me a rock of j refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have k given the command to save me,
for you are my l rock and my fortress.

4 m Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
 5 For you, O Lord, are my n hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 71:1 - 3
    In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
    Psalms 31:1 - 3
    In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 90:1
    Book Four Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
    Psalms 91:9
    Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place - the Most High, who is my refuge -
    Deuteronomy 33:27
    The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 42:8
    By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 18:2
    The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 140:1
    Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men.
    Psalms 140:4
    Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.
  6. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:8
    O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
    Jeremiah 17:13
    O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
    Jeremiah 50:7
    All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the Lord, their habitation of righteousness, the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
    1 Timothy 1:1
    Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope.
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