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Psalm 71:5
For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
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Confidence “from my youth” belongs here to someone asking for rescue, so years of trust in God coexist with a present need for help.
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Psalm 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.Both prayers locate hope in God, with Psalm 62 expressing that dependence through silent waiting.
Jeremiah 17:7“Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose confidence is in the LORD.Both passages name the Lord as the ground of confidence, and Jeremiah pronounces a blessing on the person who trusts him.
Psalm 39:7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.Both psalms speak to the Lord and confess that their hope is in him.
Psalm 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God,Both passages place hope in the Lord, and Psalm 146 describes the happiness of having him for help.
Psalm 119:81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.Both express hope amid a need for rescue, with Psalm 119 naming God’s word as the ground of hope.
1 Samuel 17:45–47Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Armies, the God …Both express confidence in God amid danger: the psalmist asks for rescue, and David faces the Philistine in the Lord’s name.
Jeremiah 17:17Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.Both prayers address God as the one on whom the speaker depends while facing trouble.
Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.Both connect hope with God; Romans prays for hope to abound through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jeremiah 14:8You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?Both address God as hope amid trouble, though Jeremiah speaks for Israel and questions God’s apparent distance.
Jeremiah 17:13LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, …Both name the Lord as hope, with the psalm speaking of personal trust and Jeremiah naming him as Israel’s hope.
2 Timothy 3:15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.Both look back to early life: the psalm recalls confidence in God, while Timothy’s childhood included knowledge of the holy Scriptures.
Luke 2:40The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.The shared thread is early life: the psalm recalls trust from youth, while Luke describes a child growing under God’s grace.
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Long trust does not make a plea for rescue unnecessary. The God addressed in danger is the same Lord who has been the psalmist’s hope from youth.
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