Confident Prayer for Help in Old Age

For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord,
    my confidence since my youth.
From birth I have relied on you;
    you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.
    I will ever praise you...
Do not cast me away when I am old;
    do not forsake me when my strength is gone.
For my enemies speak against me...
They say, “God has forsaken him...”
Do not be far from me, my God;
    come quickly, God, to help me...
Even when I am old and gray,
    do not forsake me, my God...
  Who is like you, God?
Though you have made me see troubles,
    many and bitter,
    you will restore my life again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will again bring me up.
You will increase my honor
    and comfort me once more.

(Psalm 71 verses5-6, 9-12, 18, 19-21)