Psalms 71:5

_FOR THOU ART MY HOPE, O LORD GOD: THOU ART MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH._ -The prayer in Psalms 71:4 is followed, first, by the basis on which it rests (Psalms 71:5); then by an expanded form of it (Psalms 71:9). Verse 5. FOR THOU ART MY HOPE - i:e., my object of hope (Psalms 40:4). O LORD GOD - _ 'ADONAAY_ (H136) _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), implying a fullness of power, dominion, and unchangeable faithfulness, which fits Him for being his constant trust. MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH. He does not hereby commend his

5._For thou art my expectation, O Lord Jehovah! _The Psalmist here repeats what he had said a little before concerning his trust or confidence. But some, perhaps, may be inclined to refer this sentence rather to the matter or ground afforded him for hope and confidence than to the emotions of his heart; supposing him to mean, that by the benefits which God had conferred upon him, he was furnished with well-grounded hope. And certainly he does not here simply declare that he hoped in God, but with this he conjoins experience, and acknowledges that even from his youth he had received tokens of the Divine favor, from which he might learn, that confidence is to be reposed in God alone. By adverting to what God had done for him, (106) he expresses the real cause of faith, (if I may so speak;) and from this we may easily perceive the powerful influence which the remembrance of God’s benefits h...

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 persecuted; men wondered at for their principles and conduct; but the Lord has been their strong refuge. The faithful servants of God may be assured that he will not cast them off in old age, nor forsake them when their strength fails....

Verse Psalms 71:5. _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_....

FOR THOU ART MY HOPE, O LORD GOD - The ground of my hope and my expectation is in thee. (1) I have no other help; no other defense; but (2) I “have” confidence; on thee I “do” rely. THOU ART MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH - From my earliest years. The meaning is, that he had always trusted in God, and had always found him a helper. All that he was, and all that he possessed, he owed to God; and he felt now that God had been his protector from his earliest years. Perhaps it could not be shown certainly from this expression that he meant to say he had “actually trusted” in God from his youth, for the “language” means no more than that God had actually protected him, and holden him up, and had continually interposed to save and keep him. As God had always been his Protector, so he felt that he might come to Him now, and put his trust in Him.

EXPOSITION Psalms 71:1 is, like so many others, a psalm divided between complaint and praise. It is comparatively wanting in originality, being, to a very great extent, an echo of other psalms, especially Psalms 22:1, Psalms 31:1, Psalms 35:1, and Psalms 40:1. Complaint, mingled with prayer, occupies the first half (Psalms 40:1); praise and thanksgiving the second (Psa 40:14 -24). The authorship of the psalm is very doubtful, as it has no "title," and fe

FOR THOU [ART] MY HOPE, O LORD GOD,.... The object, ground, and foundation of it, even of present deliverance, and of future and eternal salvation; [THOU ART] MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH; in whom he trusted in his youthful days, of which there is an eminent instance in 1 Samuel 17:33....

Psalms 71:1. _In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion._ There is his trust, and there is his fear; his trust he dares to avow, his fear he turns into a prayer. Psalms 71:2. _Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress._ «Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort.» Not merely now and then a hiding-place in emergency, but my constant abode, my home, so that from morning to night I may come to thee, and feel myself secure. «Thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.» You see he knows that God has

TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

Psalms 71 Israel's Song of Hope _ 1. Declaration of trust (Psalms 71:1)_ 2. Anticipations of faith (Psalms 71:12) 3. Revival and victory (Psalms 71:19) This Psalm, which bears no inscription whatever, gives another prophetic picture of the faith and the anticipations of faith as found in the godly of Israel, when the salvation is about to come out of Zion. They look to Him who is all sufficient to deliver and to save them. The Psalm may well be called Israel's song of hope. It abounds in many beautiful, refreshing statements, equally precious to us....