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Psalms 71:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Increase my honor and comfort me again. "
Psalms 71:21
Verse in Context
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19 God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
21 Increase my honor and comfort me again.
22 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
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Psalms 71:1
"In you, LORD, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed."
Psalms 71:2
"Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me."
Psalms 71:3
"Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress."
Psalms 71:4
"Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man."
Psalms 71:5
"For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth."
Psalms 71:6
"I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you."
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