Psalms 71:20 - Exposition

Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again; or, according to another reading, which hast showed us — shalt deliver us. The change of number may be ascribed to the desire of the psalmist to unite his people with himself in the hopes of deliverance which he is expressing. And shalt bring me up again (rather, shalt bring us up again ) from the depths of the earth. 'The "depths of the earth" is a metaphor for the extreme of misery and depression (comp. Psalms 88:6 ; Psalms 130:1 ).