KJV King James Version
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
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Psalm 71:17
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
WEB World English Bible
God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
ASV American Standard Version
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders.
Surrounding context — Psalm 71
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof].
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.
19 Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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Psalm 119:9BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word.Psalm 71:5For thou [art] my hope, O Lord GOD: [thou art] my trust from my youth.Psalm 119:102I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.Deuteronomy 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.Psalm 66:16Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.Psalm 26:7That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.1 Samuel 17:36-37Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.2 Samuel 4:9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, [As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,1 Chronicles 16:4-36And he appointed [certain] of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:2 Samuel 22:1-51And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
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