18 [a]Yea even unto mine old age and gray head, O God: forsake me not, until I have declared thine arm unto this generation, and thy power to all them that shall come.

19 And thy [b]righteousness, O God, I will exalt on high: for thou hast done great things: [c]O God, who is like unto thee!

20 Which hast showed me great troubles and [d]adversities, but thou wilt return and revive me, and wilt come again, and take me up from the depth of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 71:18 He desireth that as he hath begun, he would so continue his benefits, that his liberality may have perfect praise.
  2. Psalm 71:19 Thy just performance of thy promise.
  3. Psalm 71:19 His faith breaketh through all tentations, and by this exclamation he praiseth the power of God.
  4. Psalm 71:20 As he confesseth that God is the only author of his deliverance: so he acknowledgeth that these evils were sent unto him by God’s providence.

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