Psalms 71:21

NETBible

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.

KJV
Thou shalt increase
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NASB ©
May You increase
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NETBible

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.)