Tahalym (Psalm) — 71

A Prayer for Deliverance

1 In you O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH I take refuge; let me never be humiliated.

2 Rescue and deliver me, because you are righteous. Turn your ear to me and save me.

3 Be my sheltering refuge where I may go continuously; command my deliverance for you are my rock and fortress.

4 My 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, deliver me from the power of the wicked and the grasp of ruthless practicers of evil.

5 For you are my hope, my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, my security since I was young.

6 I depended on you since birth, when you brought me from my mother’s womb; I Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH continuously.

7 I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

8 My mouth is filled with your Yadah and your splendor daily.

9 Do not throw me away when I am old; do not abandon me when my strength fails.

10 For my enemies talk against me; those who seek to kill me plot together

11 and say, his 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH has abandoned him, run after him and seize him, because there is no deliverer.”

12 O my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, do not be distant from me, my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, come quickly to help me.

13 Let my adversaries be ashamed and consumed; let those who seek my destruction be covered with scorn and shame.

14 As for me, I will hope continuously and will Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH more and more.

15 I will declare your righteousness and your salvation every day, though I do not fully understand what the outcome will be.

16 O my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, I will come in the power of your mighty acts, remembering your righteousness, yours alone.

17 O my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, you taught me from my youth, so I am still declaring your awesome deeds.

18 Also, when I reach old age and have gray hair, do not forsake me, until I have declared your power to this generation and your might to the next generation.

19 Your many righteous deeds are great,

20 O my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the Arath.

21 You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

22 I also will Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH with the harp; because of your faithfulness, my  𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH. I will Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  with the lyre, Oh Qadash One of Yashar'AL.

23 My lips will shout for joy when I sing to Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, whose life you have redeemed.

24 Moreover, my tongue will speak all day about your justice; for those who seek my destruction will be utterly humiliated.