“For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.”
The affirmation that God has been the psalmist's hope and confidence from youth articulates that the relationship with God extends across the entire lifespan. The reference to being supported from the womb indicates that God's care precedes consciousness and choice. This verse establishes the long history of dependence on God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:5
1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivers us commends itself to us, in order that it may have us commended. This is sung of in this Psalm, whereof we have undertaken to speak....This grace the Apostle commends: by this he got to have the Jews for enemies, boasting of the letter of the law and of their own justice. This then commending in the lesson which has been read, he says thus: “For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not worthy to be called an…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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