[2] It forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

However, the Greek Septuagint text bears the title: "By David, of the sons of Jonadab and the first ones taken captive".

[5] Theologian Albert Barnes suggests that it "belongs to the "class" of psalms which refer to the trials of the righteous".

[7] Obinwa uses a quantitative lexical analysis to argue that the theme of the psalm is not old age, but refuge and YHWH's righteousness.

[9] Heinrich Schütz set Psalm 71 in a metred version in German, "Auf dich, Herr, trau ich alle Zeit", SWV 168, as part of the Becker Psalter, first published in 1628.