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Psalms 71:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 71:22: The speaker's “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth,…” contributes testimony, resolve, or self-address to “Lifelong trust through aging and threat.”
Read It With
- Psalms 71:1–24
Read Psalms 71:22 with 71:1–24. Read alone, “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 71:1–24, the individual voice carries the movement “Lifelong trust through aging and threat” as part of “Lifelong trust through aging and threat.” Its lament-confidence form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 71:1–24 opens Psalm 71 with “In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion” and establishes the individual voice and “Lifelong trust through aging and threat” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 71:22 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker.
What Remains True
The lasting force of “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O…” comes through Psalms 71:1–24 and Book II, not isolation. Praise remembers concrete divine character and action, gathers many voices, and remains honest about grief rather than demanding one emotional performance. The local movement is “Lifelong trust through aging and threat.” The unit's reviewed limit is: Aging language honors dependence and testimony; it must not stigmatize disability, promise painless old age, or substitute prayer for care.
How It Can Shape Life
- Keep the movement “Lifelong trust through aging and threat” in view. Answer “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O…” by naming one concrete gift or act of mercy, sharing gratitude without requiring a grieving person to match your mood. The textual reason is this verse's role: Psalm 71:22 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 71:1–24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 71:1–24
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Biblical Studies Press
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Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 71:1–24.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 71 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 71:1–24
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