1. How wrote the psalm and what type is it? What is his request? Is it urgent? What is the details and how to they show the urgency? (2)
2. What will David and those like him do? What does this show about their faith in God? What is David condition? What does he repeat? (5b)
II. Do Not Cast Me Away When I Am Old (71:1-12)
3. Considering Psalm 71 might be have been a continuation of Psalm 70 what is David's updated request? (1) What is David asking the Lord to do? (2) What does it mean that God is our rock of refuge?
4. Is David confident in himself? For long has he been in confident of the Lord God? (5) What is a portent? Why was David one? Did David become proud because of it?
5. Did everyone see David as a portent? (9) What stage of life was David? How far advanced? What were his enemies doing? What were they doing? What were they telling themselves and others? What were they inciting? What, therefore did he ask of God? What did he want of is accusers? How might this happen? What does their planning show about their belief in God?
III. When I Am Old and Grey (71:13-24)
6. Who does the psalm turn back to? What two things does he tell himself in verse 14? What two more things in verse 15? Does he know all about them? What can be learned about teaching? What else does he decide to do in verse 16? Does he say where he will do it? What is God's righteousness? What did he learn and then teach all his life? (17) How did he learn it? After all those statements, what does he ask God? Who will he teach and what?
7. What is righteousness? How does God's righteousness differ from mankind's righteousness? What question is asked? (19) Why? id David experience a carefree life? (20) How did he see most of his life? Did he let that be a determining factor in his belief about his eternal dwelling? And even his near future? (21)
8. What was he determine to do even though he see bitter troubles? What did he call his God? (22) Will his singing be soft, pleasant, and gentle? (23) When David says his tongue will tell of God's righteous acts, was he only say with song? How long would he do this? Why?
