Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent
In
you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your
righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may
continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock
and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have
leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother's womb. My
praise is continually of you. I have been as a portent to many, but you are my
strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the
day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent. For my enemies speak concerning me; those
who watch for my life consult together and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue
and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. My mouth
will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for
their number is past my knowledge. With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will
come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone. O God, from my youth you
have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age
and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to
another generation, your power to all those to come.
Your
righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you? You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will
revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. You
will increase my greatness and comfort me again. I will also praise you with
the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the
lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to
you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed. And my tongue will talk of your
righteous help all the day long,
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