19 And thy [a]righteousness, O God, I will exalt on high: for thou hast done great things: [b]O God, who is like unto thee!

20 Which hast showed me great troubles and [c]adversities, but thou wilt return and revive me, and wilt come again, and take me up from the depth of the earth.

21 Thou wilt increase mine honor, and return and comfort me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 71:19 Thy just performance of thy promise.
  2. Psalm 71:19 His faith breaketh through all tentations, and by this exclamation he praiseth the power of God.
  3. Psalm 71:20 As he confesseth that God is the only author of his deliverance: so he acknowledgeth that these evils were sent unto him by God’s providence.

19 Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,(A)
    you who have done great things.(B)
    Who is like you, God?(C)
20 Though you have made me see troubles,(D)
    many and bitter,
    you will restore(E) my life again;
from the depths of the earth(F)
    you will again bring me up.
21 You will increase my honor(G)
    and comfort(H) me once more.

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