Psalm 71:2
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of it" {q}; See Gill on "Psalms 31:1";
and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal death; which nothing but the righteousness of God can deliver from, or cause to escape;
incline thine ear unto me; or "bow it"; See Gill on "Psalms 31:2";
and save me; out of all troubles and afflictions, and from wicked and unreasonable men.
{q} Ktqdub "propter justitiam tuam", Pagninus, Piscator; so Schmidt.
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