Psalms 71:1-7

1In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!

2In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!

3Be 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.

4Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

5For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

6Upon 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.

7I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.