Psalms 71:21
ContextNET © | Raise me to a position of great honor! 1 Turn and comfort me! 2 |
NIV © | You will increase my honour and comfort me once again. |
NASB © | May You increase my greatness And turn to comfort me. |
NLT © | You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again. |
MSG © | streaming with honors; turn to me, be tender to me, |
BBE © | You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side. |
NRSV © | You will increase my honor, and comfort me once again. |
NKJV © | You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side. |
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NET © | Raise me to a position of great honor! 1 Turn and comfort me! 2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “increase my greatness.” The prefixed verbal form is distinctly jussive, indicating this is a prayer or wish. The psalmist’s request for “greatness” (or “honor”) is not a boastful, self-serving prayer for prominence, but, rather, a request that God would vindicate by elevating him over those who are trying to humiliate him. 2 tn The imperfects are understood here as expressing the psalmist’s prayer or wish. (Note the use of a distinctly jussive form at the beginning of v. 21.) |