Psalm 71: Summit: Obama to Moscow

US President Obama began a multi-nation tour with his first stop in Moscow for a summit on reducing nuclear weapons.

Also, on a continuation of events in Honduras, a battle between elements in the Honduras government sparked an attempted return by Zelaya.

Psalm 71

Theoretical Time:

  • 13000-06-16 NH 01:5:27 AA
  • 2009-07-05 18:41:42 TMMT
  • 2009-07-05 16:20:48 GMT
  • 2009-07-05 12:20:48 EDT

26 Psalms 71


1In you, Yahvah, I put my trust; let me never be confounded.
2Deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.
3Be to me a sheltering rock where I may continually resort; give commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
4Deliver me, god, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5For you are my hope, Master Yahvah; you are my trust from my youth.
6By you, I have been sustained from the womb; you are my hope since I was in my mother's body; my praise is continually of you.


7I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.
8Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
9Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.
10For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,
11saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him; for there is no one to deliver him.


12God, do not be far from me; my god, make haste for my help.
13Let them be ashamed and embarrassed who envy my soul, let them be covered with shame that seek my hurt.
14But I will pray continually, and will praise you, yet more and more.
15My mouth will show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day, for I cannot read.
16I will go in the strength of Master Yahvah; I will make mention of your righteousness, even of you only.


17God, you have taught me from my youth, so that I might declare your wondrous works.
18Now also to old age and gray hairs, god, do not forsake me; until I have shown your strength and your might to the generation that is to come.
19Your righteousness, god, has also reached to the highest; you have done great things; god, who is like you.
20You who have shown me great and severe troubles, will quicken me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the land.
21You have increased my greatness, and have returned to comfort me.


22I will also praise you with the psaltery, I will sing of your truth, my god; to you, I will sing with the harp, holy one of Israel.
23My lips will greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24My tongue will also talk of your righteousness all the day long; for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.

Fulfillment: Obama in Moscow

The theoretical time for this Psalm is in the evening of July 5 in Moscow. Obama and family arrived early in the morning of July 6 for the summit. (The Obama family departed Washington DC before sunset on July 5, 2009, essentially at theoretical for this Psalm.)

The specific subject was a "reset" meeting, a reduction in nuclear weapons levels.

The Psalmist addresses this issue based on trusting God for defense. (See verses 1-7.) This instead of weapons levels.

After the summit, Obama would continue to the G8 Summit in Italy.

Zelaya Attempts Return

Departing Washington DC very close to the theoretical time, ousted Honduras president Zelaya attempted a return to Honduras.

The man broadcast live from his airplane on the return asking for landing rights "in God's Name" while at the same time the Catholic Bishop of Honduras wanted him to stay away in order to protect human life on the ground.

The government of Honduras placed vehicles on the runway in order to prevent the plane from landing. He eventually landed in Managua, Nicaragua.

The Psalm suggests that Honduras was spared this evil man, as seen in verse 4.

By Phil Stone
Revised 13000-06-15 (2009-07-05)