Psalms 71:21

Raise me to a position of great honor! ¹  Turn and comfort me! ² 

biblegateway Psa 71:21

You will increase my honour and comfort me once again.

biblegateway Psa 71:21

May You increase my greatness And turn to comfort me.

biblegateway Psa 71:21

You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again.

biblegateway Psa 71:21

streaming with honors; turn to me, be tender to me,

SABDAweb Psa 71:21

You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side.

bibleoremus Psa 71:21

You will increase my honor, and comfort me once again.

biblegateway Psa 71:21

You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side.

biblegateway Psa 71:21

Raise me to a position of great honor! ¹  Turn and comfort me! ² 

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.)