16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
I will strengthen them in Yahweh; And they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh.
Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
Your bars shall be iron and brass; As your days, so shall your strength be.
I will make mention of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh, [and] the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
but those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, For they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; You have done great things. God, who is like you?
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Commentary on Psalms 71 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 71
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 afflictions, especially those they meet with in their declining years; for this psalm, above any other, is fitted for the use of the old disciples of Jesus Christ.
He is in an ecstasy of joyful praise; and, in the singing of it, we too should have our faith in God encouraged and our hearts raised in blessing his holy name.
Psa 71:1-13
Two things in general David here prays for-that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded.
Psa 71:14-24
David is here in a holy transport of joy and praise, arising from his faith and hope in God; we have both together v. 14, where there is a sudden and remarkable change of his voice; his fears are all silenced, his hopes raised, and his prayers turned into thanksgivings. "Let my enemies say what they will, to drive me to despair, I will hope continually, hope in all conditions, in the most cloudy and dark day; I will live upon hope and will hope to the end.' Since we hope in one that will never fail us, let not our hope in him fail us, and then we shall praise him yet more and more. "The more they reproach me the more closely will I cleave to thee; I will praise thee more and better than ever I have done yet.' The longer we live the more expert we should grow in praising God and the more we should abound in it. I will add over and above all thy praise, all the praise I have hitherto offered, for it is all too little. When we have said all we can, to the glory of God's grace, there is still more to be said; it is a subject that can never be exhausted, and therefore we should never grow weary of it. Now observe, in these verses,