Psalm 71:5

New English Translation

For you give me confidence, O Lord; O Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:12

But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. That would not be fair, because your servant has been a loyal follower of the Lord from my youth.

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

Psalm 119:166

I hope for your deliverance, O Lord, and I obey your commands.

Psalm 119:81

I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

Psalm 13:5

But I trust in your faithfulness. May I rejoice because of your deliverance!

Psalm 39:7

But now, O Lord, upon what am I relying? You are my only hope!

Psalm 42:11

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

Psalm 71:17

O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth – before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Jeremiah 14:8

You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

Jeremiah 17:13

You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the Lord, the fountain of life.

Jeremiah 17:17

Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.

Jeremiah 17:7

My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’

Luke 2:40

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:15

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

1 Samuel 16:13

So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.