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Psalm 71

¹In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
²Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
³Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.
⁴Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
⁵For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
⁶By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
⁷I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
⁸Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
⁹Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
¹⁰For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
¹¹Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
¹²O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
¹³Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
¹⁵My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
¹⁶I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
¹⁷O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
¹⁸Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
¹⁹Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
²⁰Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
²²I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
²⁴My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

31Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
²And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul’s sons.
³And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
⁴Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
⁵And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
⁶So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
⁷And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
⁸And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
⁹And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
¹⁰And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
¹¹And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
¹²All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
¹³And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

²⁰And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
²¹Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
²²For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
²³But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
²⁴And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
²⁵And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
²⁶Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
²⁷And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
²⁸And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
²⁹And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
³⁰When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
³¹So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
³²Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
³³Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
³⁴And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
³⁵For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
³⁶Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
³⁷And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
³⁸And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.