Oratio: In You, O Lord, Do I Take Refuge

In today’s Oratio Hour, Rev. Jonathan Fisk meditates on:

1. Psalm 71:1-8

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

71 In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
    let me never be put to shame!
²In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
    incline your ear to me, and save me!
³Be to me a rock of refuge,
    to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
    for you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
    from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
⁵For you, O Lord, are my hope,
    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
⁶Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
    you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.