O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again. You will increase my greatness and comfort me again. I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed. And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.
Comment: I have taken the liberty of changing the poetry of this portion of the psalm to prose. I have not changed any words but just joined it together into prose. David continues with his plea to God that his youthful enthusiasm for God will continue into his old age – that he will be able to proclaim the goodness and glory of God. May I do the same! David says ‘Through the ups and downs of my life you have been faithful’.. ‘With speaking, even shouting, in songs or on musical instruments I will proclaim your goodness and protection of me!’
Prayer: There are some aspects of growing old which I don’t like much, God. Please help me to look beyond ‘the end’ to the ‘beginning’ which Jesus has promised!
As I read it! 