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Psalm 71

Psa. 71:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou, which hast showed
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
me great
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
and sore
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
troubles
tsarah (Hebrew #6869)
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
KJV usage: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsaw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6862
, shalth quicken
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
me again
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
, and shalt bring me up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
again
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
from the depths
thowm (Hebrew #8415)
(usually feminine) from 1949; an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply)
KJV usage: deep (place), depth.
Pronounce: teh-home'
Origin: or thom {teh-home'}
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Psa. 40:1‑3• 1To the chief musician; a psalm of David.{HR}Waiting I waited for Jehovah,{HR}And he inclined unto me and heard my cry.
2And he brought me up from a pit of noise,{HR}From the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock;{HR}He fixed my steps.
3And he put in my mouth a new song, praise to our God:{HR}Many shall {i}see{/i} and fear, and trust in Jehovah.
(Psa. 40:1‑3)
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Psa. 60:3• 3Thou hast shown thy people hard things,{HR}Thou hast made us drink the wine of reeling. (Psa. 60:3)
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Psa. 66:10‑12• 10For thou hast proved us, O God,{HR}Thou hast assayed us as silver is assayed.
11Thou hast brought us into the net,{HR}Thou hast put pressure upon our loins.
12Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads;{HR}We went into the fire and into the waters,{HR}And thou hast brought us into abundance.
(Psa. 66:10‑12)
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Psa. 88:6‑18• 6Thou hast laid me in the pit of abysses,{HR}In dark places, in depths.
7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,{HR}And thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy breakers. Selah.
8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me,{HR}Thou hast made me abomination to them:{HR}[I am] shut up and cannot come forth.
9Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee.
10Wilt thou do a wonder to the dead?{HR}Shall shades (Rephaim) arise?{HR}Shall they praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave?{HR}Thy faithfulness in destruction (Abaddon)?
12Shall thy wonders be known in the darkness,{HR}And thy righteousness in a land of forgetfulness?
13But for me, I cry unto thee, O Jehovah,{HR}And in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
14Why, O Jehovah, dost thou cast off my soul?{HR}Hidest thou thy face from me?
15Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted.
16Thy fierce angers have come over me;{HR}Thy terrors have cut me off,
17They have surrounded me like the water all the day,{HR}And they have closed in upon me together.
18Thou hast put far from me lover and associate;{HR}Mine acquaintances [are] darkness.
(Psa. 88:6‑18)
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Psa. 138:7• 7If I walk in the midst of distress, thou wilt revive me;{HR}Upon the wrath of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand,{HR}And thy right hand shall save me. (Psa. 138:7)
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2 Sam. 12:11• 11Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, {i}and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.{/i} (2 Sam. 12:11)
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Mark 14:33‑34• 33{i}And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be{/i} amazed and deeply depressed.
34And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; tarry here and watch.
(Mark 14:33‑34)
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Mark 15:34• 34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Mark 15:34)
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2 Cor. 11:23‑31• 23Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often.
24From Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one;
25thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble;
27in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28Apart from things without, my pressing care day by day, the concern for all the assemblies.
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
30If I must boast, I will boast in the matters of my infirmity.
31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he that is blessed forever, knoweth that I lie not.
(2 Cor. 11:23‑31)
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Rev. 7:14• 14And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Rev. 7:14)
quicken.
shalt bring.
 His quickening power would be seen in reviving the nation and bringing them again from the depths of the earth in which for so long they had been buried amidst the nations. (Psalm 71 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou, who hast shewn usa many and sore troubles, wilt revive usa again, and wilt bring usa up again from the depths of the earth;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "me."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou who hast made usa see many distresses and evils,{HR}Wilt turn and make us live,{HR}And from the depths of the earth wilt turn and bring us up.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, me.