Psalms 71:1
In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:20and they are helped against them, and the Hagarites are given into their hand, and all who [are] with them, for they cried to God in battle, and He was entreated of them, because they trusted in Him.
Psalms 25:2My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.
Psalms 125:1A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah [are] as Mount Zion, It is not moved — to the age it abideth.
Isaiah 45:17Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!
Romans 9:33according as it hath been written, 'Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'
Matthew Henry on Psalms 71:1
David penned this psalm in his old age, as appears by several passages in it, which makes many think that it was penned at the time of Absalom's rebellion; for that was the great trouble of his later days. It might be occasioned by Sheba's insurrection, or some trouble that happened to him in that part of his life of which it was foretold that the sword should not depart from his house. But he is not over-particular in representing his case, because he intended it for the general use of God's people in their… Read the whole commentary →