Text -- Psalms 71:21 (NET)

71:21 Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 71:21

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.)