Psalms 71:5

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3 ^aBe my¹ strong refuge,
To which I may resort continually;
You have given the ^bcommandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

4 ^aDeliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5 For You are ^amy hope, O Lord GOD;
You are my trust from my youth.

6 ^aBy You I have been¹ upheld from birth;
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
My praise shall be continually of You.

7 ^aI have become as a wonder to many,
But You are my strong refuge.

8 Let ^amy mouth be filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all the day.

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Psalms 71:5

For thou art my hope, O Lord God - The ground of my hope and my expectation is in thee.

(1) I have no other help; no other defense; but

(2) I "have" confidence; on thee I "do" rely.

Thou art my trust from my youth - From my earliest years. The meaning is, that he had always trusted in God, and had always found him a helper. All that he was, and all that he possessed, he owed to God; and he felt now that God had been his protector from his earliest years. Perhaps it could not be shown certainly from this expression that he meant to say he had "actually trusted" in God from his youth, for the "language" means no more than that God had actually protected him, and holden him up, and had continually interposed to save and keep him. As God had always been his Protector, so he felt that he might come to Him now, and put his trust in Him.

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