Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 71:5

"For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my trust from my youth." — Psalms 71:5 (ASV)

My hope. —Compare Jeremiah 14:8; Jeremiah 1:7. Also in New Testament, 1 Timothy 1:1, The Lord Jesus Christ our hope. Shakespeare, with his fine ear for scriptural expressions, caught this.

“And God shall be my hope, my stay.”

“God, our hope, shall help us.”—2 Henry VI.