A prayer for old age 1In You, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be disgraced.
2Deliver me in Your righteousness, and provide me a means to escape; incline Your ear unto me, and save me.
3May You be my strong refuge, to which I may continually resort. Give Your command to save me; for You are my Rock and my Fortress.
4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, unrighteous and cruel man.
5For You are my hope, O LORD God; I have trusted in You from my youth.
6have I been held up by You from my birth; You are He Who took me out of my mother; my praise shall always be of You.
7I have been an example to many, because You are my strength and protection.
8Let my mouth be filled with Your praise as I honor You all the day.
9Do not abandon me in my old age; nor forsake me when my strength fails.
10For my enemies lay wait for my soul and take counsel together,
11Saying, “God has finally forsaken him; pursue and seize him; for there is none to deliver him”.
12O God, stay close to me; O my God, come quickly to help me.
13Let them that are adversaries to my soul be frustrated and confounded; let them that seek my harm be humiliated and embarrassed.
14But as for me, I will hope continually, and will yet praise You more and more.
15My mouth shall utter Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day; for I do not know their full measure.
16I will go in Your strength; I will proclaim Your righteousness, of Yours only.
17O God, You have taught me from my youth; and to this day I have declared Your wondrous works.
18Now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me; until I have proclaimed Your strength to this new generation, and Your power to all that are to come.
19Your righteousness also, O God, reaches to the heavens; You, Who have done such great things. O God, who is like You?
20You, Who has shown me great and bitter troubles, shall revive me, and raise me again from the depths of the earth.
21You shall increase my honor, and comfort me once again.
22I will also praise You and Your truth, O my God; unto You will I sing with the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
23My lips, and my soul, which You have redeemed, shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto You.
24My tongue also shall speak of Your righteousness all the day long; for they that seek my hurt are astounded, confounded, and brought to shame. A Psalm for Solomon Here in this “Psalm for Solomon”, some of the early verses are a prayer for God's blessing upon himself (David), and particularly blessings upon his son, Solomon, as his successor as king. There is then an ill-defined transition where God's glory becomes the primary focus. Some pronouns through this transition are likely dual-references, which are identified using the ‘deep purple' font, followed by the parenthetic insertion where font treatment alone will not suffice for clarity, such as “(Solomon and Christ)” in the case of dual-references. Easy Reader Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2023 by Jim Musser. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Bible Hub |
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