Psalms 71:17

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Psalms 71:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

16 I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.

17 O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

19 Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?

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Psalms 71:5

For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

Psalms 119:9

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.

Psalms 119:102

I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.

Psalms 66:16

Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17:37

David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”

2 Samuel 4:9

But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

2 Samuel 22:1

And David sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 22:2

He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.

2 Samuel 22:3

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

2 Samuel 22:4

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.

2 Samuel 22:5

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

2 Samuel 22:6

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

2 Samuel 22:7

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

2 Samuel 22:8

Then the earth shook and quaked; the foundations of the heavens trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.

2 Samuel 22:9

Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

2 Samuel 22:10

He parted the heavens and came down with dark clouds beneath His feet.

2 Samuel 22:11

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

2 Samuel 22:12

He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

2 Samuel 22:13

From the brightness of His presence coals of fire blazed forth.

2 Samuel 22:14

The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.

2 Samuel 22:15

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

2 Samuel 22:16

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

2 Samuel 22:17

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

2 Samuel 22:18

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

2 Samuel 22:19

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.

2 Samuel 22:20

He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

2 Samuel 22:21

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

2 Samuel 22:22

For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

2 Samuel 22:23

For all His ordinances are before me; I have not disregarded His statutes.

2 Samuel 22:24

And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.

2 Samuel 22:25

So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.

2 Samuel 22:26

To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

2 Samuel 22:27

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

2 Samuel 22:28

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

2 Samuel 22:29

For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:30

For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

2 Samuel 22:31

As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

2 Samuel 22:32

For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

2 Samuel 22:33

God is my strong fortress and He makes my way clear.

2 Samuel 22:34

He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

2 Samuel 22:35

He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

2 Samuel 22:36

You have given me Your shield of salvation, and Your gentleness exalts me.

2 Samuel 22:37

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

2 Samuel 22:38

I pursued my enemies and destroyed them; I did not turn back until they were consumed.

2 Samuel 22:39

I devoured and crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

2 Samuel 22:40

You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

2 Samuel 22:41

You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.

2 Samuel 22:42

They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.

2 Samuel 22:43

I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

2 Samuel 22:44

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

2 Samuel 22:45

Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.

2 Samuel 22:46

Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.

2 Samuel 22:47

The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

2 Samuel 22:48

the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

2 Samuel 22:49

who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

2 Samuel 22:50

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.

2 Samuel 22:51

Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”

1 Chronicles 16:4

David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to celebrate, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph was the chief, Zechariah was second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. They were to play the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals

1 Chronicles 16:6

and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Chronicles 16:7

On that day David first committed to Asaph and his brothers this song of thanksgiving to the LORD:

1 Chronicles 16:8

“Give thanks to the LORD; call upon His name; make known His deeds among the nations.

1 Chronicles 16:9

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

1 Chronicles 16:10

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

1 Chronicles 16:12

Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

1 Chronicles 16:13

O offspring of His servant Israel, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

1 Chronicles 16:14

He is the LORD our God; His judgments carry throughout the earth.

1 Chronicles 16:15

Remember His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

1 Chronicles 16:16

the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.

1 Chronicles 16:17

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

1 Chronicles 16:18

‘I will give you the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.’

1 Chronicles 16:19

When they were few in number, few indeed, and strangers in the land,

1 Chronicles 16:20

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

1 Chronicles 16:21

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

1 Chronicles 16:22

‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’

1 Chronicles 16:23

Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.

1 Chronicles 16:24

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

1 Chronicles 16:25

For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.

1 Chronicles 16:26

For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

1 Chronicles 16:27

Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy fill His dwelling.

1 Chronicles 16:28

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

1 Chronicles 16:29

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;

1 Chronicles 16:30

tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.

1 Chronicles 16:31

Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’

1 Chronicles 16:32

Let the sea resound, and all that fills it; let the fields exult, and all that is in them.

1 Chronicles 16:33

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.

1 Chronicles 16:34

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:35

Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’

1 Chronicles 16:36

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”