Psalm 71 - Keep me useful when I am old

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Never let me be put to shame. v1</div> <div> 2. Deliver me in Your righteousness and rescue me. v2</div> <div> 3. Bow down Your ear to me and save me. v2</div> <div> 4. Become to me for a Rock of habitation to enter continually. v3</div> <div> 5. Rescue me from the hand of the wicked and from the palm of the unrighteous and cruel man. v4</div> <div> 6. Don't cast me off in old age or when my strength fails. v9</div> <div> 7. Don't be far from me. v12</div> <div> 8. Haste to my help. v12.</div> <div> 9. Let my enemies be ashamed, finished. v13</div> <div> 10. Don't forsake me until I have finished telling the world of Your arm, might and righteousness. vv18-19</div> <div> 11. Revive again. v20</div> <div>  <A NAME="v2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>2</B></A><B> </B>Lord, deliver me, and do not compromise Your righteousness in doing so. </div> <div>  <A NAME="n3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>3</B></A><B> </B>I think David needs the Lord to be a Rock of habitation to him because he is homeless.</div> <div> This is the first mention in this psalm of  "continually". Continually enter into God as my Rock of habitation. If I ask God to be my Rock of habitation, then on my part I need to enter my Rock continually. ref. <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#ps19_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">Ps 19:14</A></div> <div> God has promised good concerning David and concerning us, so I can pray based on His commandment to save me.</div> <div> David asks God to become his Rock of habitation because that is what God is.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>4</B></A><A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> </A>The 2nd word for "hand" is open palm, not grasping, but appearing to be able to grasp at any time. I need to pray for God to deliver me from the real power of the wicked and from the appearance of that power.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>5 </B></A>"from my youth" indicates David is no longer young</div> <div>  <A NAME="n6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#5_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>6</B></A><B> </B>2nd mention of "continually".- continually praise in God. David praised God continually in the past and will continue to do so.</div> <div> 3rd mention of God as my dwelling or refuge.</div> <bR> <div> Where goodness has been unceasingly received, praise should unceasingly be offered<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" >.- </FONT>C. H. Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#7_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>7</B></A><B> </B>ref. <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#1co4_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">1Cor. 4:9</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="n8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>8</B></A> "all the day" is the 3rd mention of the meaning of "continually" - all the day praise.</div> <div> There are 2 mentions of "my mouth" in this psalm. Here and in <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">v15</A>. </div> <div> There is one mention of lips (<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">v23</A>) and one of tongue (<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">v24</A>), both at the very end of the psalm.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>9</B></A> It seems that David is old. One doesn't talk like this when young. I may not have strength to work, but I can praise based on much experience.</div> <div> Not, "<U>if </U>my strength fails", but "<U>when</U>".</div> <div>  <A NAME="v11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>11</B></A><B> </B>ref. <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#2sa16_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">2Sam 17:1-4</A>. It appears David prayed this psalm when fleeing from Absalom his son.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>14</B></A><B> </B>4th mention of "continually". Continually hope and add on God's praise. Hope produces genuine praise and also vice-versa. David hoped in God continually from his youth and praised God, and now that he is old he will continue and has praise to add.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>15 </B></A>5th mention of the meaning of "continually" - All day recount God's salvation and righteousness. Share the gospel.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>16</B></A> David will go to war against a much bigger army in the might of the Lord God. We go forth for the gospel. ref.<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#jdg6_12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> Judges 6:14</A></div> <div> This is one of my favorite verses.</div> <bR> <div> How gloriously conspicuous is righteousness in the divine plan of redemption! It should be the theme of constant discourse.- Spurgeon</div> <div> ref <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#rom1_16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">Rom 1:16-17</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="n17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#16" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>17</B></A> David is old but still being taught by God. This is my 2nd favorite verse in this psalm.</div> <div> Among many other things, God especially taught David to go in the might of the LORD.</div> <div> When we go in the might of the Lord (v16), God teaches us.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>18</B></A> You, God, have taught me since my youth until now. Now when I am old, I want to live so that I will still go in the might of the Lord God and can continue to tell Your doings to a generation.</div> <div> ref<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#pro16_31" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> Prov 16:31</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="n20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>20</B></A> As You have faithfully revived me in my many past troubles, revive me again.</div> <div> Does the 2nd half of this verse refer to resurrection or to deliverance from many and sore troubles? I believe it refers to deliverance from sore troubles because of what follows in v21.</div> <div>  <A NAME="v21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>21</B></A><B> </B>Even though I am old, I still expect to grow in the Lord.</div> <div>  <A NAME="v22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>22</B></A><B> </B>"Thy truth, my God, I'll sing to Thee" - I feel this is one of the 2 most touching and intimate lines in this psalm. David addresses God as "God" 5 times in this psalm, and "my God" only 3 times. It seems he reserved "my God" for particularly intimate words. </div> <div> The other 2 times David addresses God as "my God" in this psalm are both in calling for help in <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">v4 </A>&<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#12" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> v12</A>.</div> <div> I feel the most touching line is in the next verse.</div> <div>  <A NAME="n23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>23</B></A><A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> </A>My lips sing for joy about the Holy One of Israel. Lips are tender (<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#ps45_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">Ps 45:2</A>). This is the only mention of lips in this psalm. </div> <bR> <div> "And my soul which Thou hast redeemed" I feel is the most touching line in this psalm. My lips with harp and lyre sing Your truth to You, my God, and so does my soul, which You have redeemed. This is my favorite verse in this psalm. Whenever I sing the last phrase "and my soul which Thou hast redeemed", my heart tingles.</div> <bR> <div> Soul singing is the soul of singing. Till men are redeemed, they are like instruments out of tune; but when once the precious blood has set them at liberty, then are they fitted to magnify the Lord who bought them. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#25" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>24</B></A> This is the only mention of tongue in this psalm. The tongue is for skillful speaking (<A HREF="psalm_71_m.htm#ps45_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">Ps 45:1</A>).</div> <bR> <div> 11/17/2024 Steve Miller</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 71 Through David</B></div> <bR> <div> <I>(tune </I><I>"Sweet Hour of Prayer" by William Bradbury </I><I>8.8.8.8.D.)</I></div> <div> <I> <embed src="HTMLobj-1152/SweetHourOfPrayerGospelRiver.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </I></div> <div> <I>audio file from </I><A HREF="https://gospelriver.com/play-hymns-flash/?audio_file=gallery/albums/Music/Array-Hymn/cd-2/143-Lord_we_are_thine-walford.mp3&title=BHB#143:%20Lord,%20we%20are%20Thine:%20our%20God%20Thou%20art;%20Tune:%20Sweet%20Hour%20(Walford)" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://gospelriver.com/play-hymns-flash"><I>gospelriver.com</I></A></div> <div> <I> <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> 1 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1 In Thee, O LORD, I put my trust.</FONT></div> <div> Put to shame never let me be.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 2</A> Deliver in Your righteousness</div> <div> and free me. Bow Your ear to me</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> and save me. <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">3</A> Become unto me</div> <div> for a Rock of habitation</div> <div> to enter <I>in </I>continually.</div> <div> To save me You have commanded</div> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 2 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >for Thou art my Rock and Fortress.</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 4</A> My God, rescue me from the hand </div> <div> of the wicked, out of the palm </div> <div> of the unrighteous and cruel man.</div> <div>  <A NAME="5_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 5 </A>For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, </div> <div> <I> </I>since days youth my certainty.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 6</A> On You have I leaned from the womb,</div> <div> from my Mom's belly severed me. </div> <div>  <A NAME="7_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 3 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >My praise shall be continually</FONT></div> <div> in Thee.<A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 7</A> Like <I>as </I>a spectacle</div> <div> I have become unto many<I>,</I></div> <div> but You are my mighty stronghold.</div> <div>  <A NAME="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div>  <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">8</A> My mouth shall be filled with Thy praise, </div> <div>  all the day <I>long </I>with Thy glory.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 9</A> Do not cast me not off in old age.</div> <div> When my strength fails, don't forsake me.</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 4 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >10 For my enemies spoke  'gainst me, </FONT></div> <div> and <I>for </I>my soul they are watching.</div> <div> They have consulted together,</div> <div>  <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">11</A> "God has forsaken him", saying.</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> "<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Pursue and seize him, for there's none </FONT></div> <div> to deliver."  12 God, not far be </div> <div> from me; my God, haste to my help.</div> <div> 13 Let them be ashamed, finished be. </div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 5 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >The adversaries to my soul; </FONT></div> <div> with reproach let them covered be,</div> <div> and dishonor that seek my hurt.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> 14</A> But as for me, continually,</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> I'll hope, and all Thy praise add on.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n15" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">15</A> My mouth Thy righteousness recounts, </div> <div> all the day <I>long </I>Thy salvation </div> <div> because I have not known <I>the </I>counts.</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >6</FONT> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">16</A> I'll go in the might of Lord GOD. </div> <div> I'll remind of Thy righteousness,</div> <div> Thine alone. <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n17" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">17</A> You've taught me, O God,</div> <div> since my youth, and 'til the present.</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> Thy marvelous works I will tell.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">18</A> Now also, when I'm gray and old,</div> <div> O God, forsake me not, until</div> <div> to a generation I've told</div> <bR> <div> 7 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Thine arm, and to all those to come</FONT></div> <div> Thy might. 19 And Thy righteousness, God,</div> <div> is to the heights; great things You've done.</div> <div> Who is there like to Thee, O God?</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n20" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">20</A> Who has caused me to see many</div> <div> and sore troubles. Revive again,</div> <div> and <I>out </I>from the depths of the earth</div> <div> You will bring me back up again.</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >8 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v21" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">21</A> You will multi-ply my growth, and </div> <div>  You will encompass, comfort me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v22" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">22</A> I'll also praise thee with the harp.</div> <div> Thy truth, my God, I'll sing to Thee</div> <div>  <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> with the lyre, Thou the One Holy</div> <div> of Israel.<A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> </A><A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">23</A><A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"> </A>My lips for joy sing</div> <div> because I sing psalms unto Thee,</div> <div> and my soul, which Thou hast redeemed.</div> <div>  <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >9 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v24" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old">24</A> Also My tongue all the day <I>long</I></div> <div> shall about Thy righteousness speak </div> <div> for they'll be shamed for they'll be brought</div> <div> to confusion that my hurt seek.</div> <bR> <div> ---------</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps19_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>Psalm 19:14</B></A> Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my Rock, and my Redeemer.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1co4_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>1Corinthians 4:9</B></A> For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2sa16_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>2Samuel 16:20</B></A> Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your advice. What shall we do?"</div> <div> 21<B> </B>And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; then all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father. The hands of all who are with you will also be strengthened."</div> <div> 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.</div> <div>  23 And the advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.</div> <div> <B>17:1</B> Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.</div> <div>  2 "And I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and will terrify him so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone,</div> <div>  3 and I will bring back all the people to you. The return of everyone depends on the man you seek; then all the people shall be at peace."</div> <div>  4 So the plan pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jdg6_12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>Judges 6:12</B></A> And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, "The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!"</div> <div> 13 Gideon said to Him, "O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying,`Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites."</div> <div> <B>14</B> Then the LORD turned to him and said, "<B>Go in this might of yours</B>, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?"</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom1_16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>Romans 1:16</B></A> For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.</div> <div>  <B>17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith</B>; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."</div> <div>  <A NAME="pro16_31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n18" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>Proverbs 16:31</B></A> Gray hair is a crown of glory. In the way of righteousness it is found..</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps45_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#v24" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>Psalm 45:1</B></A> For the overcomer. Upon water lillies. Through the sons of Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved. My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. <B>My tongue is the pen of a ready writer</B>.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_71_l.htm#n23" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 71 Keep me useful when I am old"><B>2</B></A> Thou art fairer than the sons of men; <B>grace is poured into thy lips:</B> therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.</div> <bR> <div> 11/17/2024 Steve Miller</div> </td> </tr></table></body>