Psalms 71:17

⁹How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

⁵For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

¹⁰²I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

³⁶Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.” ³⁷David said, “The LORD, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! The LORD will be with you.”

⁷that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

¹⁶Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

^9[+] David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

⁴He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the LORD’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel: ⁵Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud; ⁶with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

⁷Then on that day David first ordained giving of thanks to the LORD by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. ⁸Oh give thanks to the LORD. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples. ⁹Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works. ¹⁰Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice. ¹¹Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more. ¹²Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, ¹³you offspring^[+] of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. ¹⁴He is the LORD our God. His judgments are in all the earth. ¹⁵Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, ¹⁶the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac. ¹⁷He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,” ¹⁹when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. ²⁰They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. ²¹He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, ²²“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!” ²³Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day. ²⁴Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples. ²⁵For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods. ²⁶For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens. ²⁷Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place. ²⁸Ascribe to the LORD, you families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! ²⁹Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship the LORD in holy array. ³⁰Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved. ³¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!” ³²Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is in it! ³³Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. ³⁴Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. ³⁵Say, “Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise.” ³⁶Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised the LORD.

¹David spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, ²and he said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; ³God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence. ⁴I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. ⁵For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. ⁶The cords of Sheol^[+] were around me. The snares of death caught me. ⁷In my distress, I called on the LORD. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears. ⁸Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations of heaven quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. ⁹Smoke went up out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. ¹⁰He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. ¹¹He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. ¹²He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies. ¹³At the brightness before him, coals of fire were kindled. ¹⁴The LORD thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice. ¹⁵He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning and confused them. ¹⁶Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. ¹⁷He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters. ¹⁸He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me. ¹⁹They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support. ²⁰He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. ²¹The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands. ²²For I have kept the LORD’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²³For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them. ²⁴I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁵Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight. ²⁶With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect. ²⁷With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. ²⁸You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down. ²⁹For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness. ³⁰For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. ³¹As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. ³²For who is God, besides the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God? ³³God is my strong fortress. He makes my way perfect. ³⁴He makes his feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me on my high places. ³⁵He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. ³⁶You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great. ³⁷You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped. ³⁸I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn’t turn again until they were consumed. ³⁹I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet. ⁴⁰For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. ⁴¹You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. ⁴²They looked, but there was no one to save; even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them. ⁴³Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad. ⁴⁴You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me. ⁴⁵The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. ⁴⁶The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. ⁴⁷The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation, ⁴⁸even the God who executes vengeance for me, who brings down peoples under me, ⁴⁹who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. ⁵⁰Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. ⁵¹He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”