Mazmur 71:1

Psalm 71 ¹ 

71:1 In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter!

Never let me be humiliated!

Mazmur 71:13

71:13 May my accusers be humiliated and defeated!

May those who want to harm me ²  be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Mazmur 71:24

71:24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,

for those who want to harm me ³  will be embarrassed and ashamed. ⁴ 

[71:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 71. The psalmist prays for divine intervention and expresses his confidence that God will protect and vindicate him. The first three verses are very similar to Ps 31:1-3a.

[71:13]  ² tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[71:24]  ³ tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[71:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “will have become embarrassed and ashamed.” The perfect verbal forms function here as future perfects, indicating future actions which will precede chronologically the action expressed by the main verb in the preceding line.