Psalms 71 · Verse 5

Psalms 71:5

For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.
Psalms 71:5, King James Version

Psalms 71:5 in other translations

BSBFor You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
WEBFor you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
ASVFor thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou art my trust from my youth.
YLTFor Thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.
DARBYFor thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.
BBEFor you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.
WebsterFor thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

What does Psalms 71:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 71:4-5

4-5. cruel man--corrupt and ill-natured--literally, "sour."

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 My trust from my youth - When I was born into the world, thou didst receive me, and thou tookest me under thy especial care. "My praise shall be continually of thee." Rather, I have always made thee my boast.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 71:1-13

David prays that he might never be made ashamed of dependence upon God. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace. The gracious care of Divine providence in our birth and infancy, should engage us to early piety. He that was our Help from our birth, ought to be our Hope from our youth. Let none expect ease or comfort from the world. Those who love the Lord, often are hated and…

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Psalms 71:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
אַתָּ֥ה'a.TahyouH859
תִקְוָתִ֑יtik.va.Ti[are] hope myH8615
אֲדֹנָ֥י'a.do.NaiO LordH136
יְ֝הוִ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3069
מִבְטַחִ֥יmiv.ta.Chiconfidence myH4009
מִנְּעוּרָֽי\׃mi.ne.'u.Raisince youth<s> myH5271

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 71:5

  • Jeremiah 17:7

    Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

  • Psalms 39:7

    And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

  • Psalms 119:81

    כ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

  • Psalms 71:17

    O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

  • 1 Samuel 17:45-47

    Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.

  • Psalms 22:9-10

    But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

  • Jeremiah 17:17

    Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

  • Psalms 119:166

    Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

  • 2 Timothy 3:15

    And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

  • Jeremiah 17:13

    O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

  • Jeremiah 14:8

    O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

  • Romans 15:13

    Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For thou.
13:5; 39:7; 42:11; 119:81,166; Jer 17:7,13,17; Ro 15:13
my trust.
17; 22:9,10; 1Sa 16:13; 17:33-37,45-47; Ec 12:1; Lu 2:40; 2Ti 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 71:4

    Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

  • Psalms 71:5

    For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.

  • Psalms 71:6

    By 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.

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Psalms 71:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque tú, oh Señor Jehová, eres mi esperanza: seguridad mía desde mi juventud.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car toi tu es mon attente, Seigneur Éternel! ma confiance dès ma jeunesse.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn du bist meine Hoffnung, Herr, Jehova; meine Zuversicht von meiner Jugend an.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et permanebit cum sole, et ante lunam, in generatione et generationem.