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Psalm 71 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge?
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Let me never be put to shame.
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In your righteousness deliver me, and rescue me, incline your ear to me and save me, beat
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me a rock of refuge to which I may continually come.
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You have given the command to save me for you are my rock and my fortress.
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Forgive me, oh my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and
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For you, O Lord, are my hoe, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
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Upon you I have leaned from before my birth.
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You are he who took me from my mother's womb.
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My praise is continually of you.
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I have been as important to many, but you are my strong refuge.
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My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.
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Do not cast me off in the time of old age, forsake me not when my strength is spent.
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For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together and
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say, God has forsaken him, pursue and seize him for there is none to deliver him.
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Oh God, be not far from me.
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Oh my God, make haste to help me.
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May my accusers be put to shame and consumed, with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
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who seek my herd, but I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.
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My mouth will tell of all your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for
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their number is past my knowledge.
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With the mighty deeds of the Lord, God, I will come.
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I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
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Oh God, from my youth you have taught me.
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Oh God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
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So even to old age and gray hairs, oh God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your
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might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
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Your righteousness, oh God, reaches the high heavens, you who have done great things, oh
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God, who is like you.
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You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again.
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From the depths of the earth, you will bring me up again, you will increase my greatness
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and comfort me again.
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I will also praise you with the harp, for your faithfulness, oh my God, I will sing praises
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to you with the liar, oh holy one of Israel, my lips will shout for joy, when icing praises
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to you, my soul also what you have redeemed, and my tongue will talk of your righteous
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help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed, who sought to
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This is the prayer of a saint in winter, who in his old age realizes that life is mostly
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Do not cast me off in the time of old age, he prays.
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So even to old age and gray hairs, oh God, do not forsake me.
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As we continue to age, this psalm instructs us in how to walk with God.
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We are reminded that our time on earth is filled with strife, God is brought into the
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psalmist's life, many troubles and calamities.
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The psalmists are realists.
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They do not skate over hardships, smiling all the way.
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They know what it feels like to spend time in the depths of the earth.
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But through all of the pains, the psalmist has not grown cynical.
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Cynicism is a great temptation as we walk through life and move toward death.
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As difficulties pile up as relationships sour, as hopes and goals fail to materialize,
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it is easy to throw in the towel emotionally and settle into cold-hearted cynicism.
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The psalmist, however, teaches us that pain is not meant to numb us and cause our hearts
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Pain is meant to draw her hearts up to God.
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From the depths of the earth, you will bring me up again.
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Adversity is not intended to diminish our hope in God.
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Adversity is intended to heighten our hope in Him.
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We are brought to remember that God is all we have and that He is enough.
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We are brought to remember that God is all we have and that He is enough.