You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.
Parallel translations
- WEB Increase my honor, and comfort me again.
- KJV Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
- NKJV You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side.
- NASB May You increase my greatness And turn to comfort me.
- NLT You will restore me to even greater honor and comfort me once again.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to increase his honor and to comfort him once more.
Overview
After acknowledging his troubles, he prays for restored standing and fresh consolation from God himself. This is not pride but a desire for vindication that comes from the Lord, who alone can truly comfort. The God of all comfort answers such prayers supremely in Christ, in whom believers find both honor as God's children and abiding consolation (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- 2 Sam 3:1Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Ps 18:35You have given me Your shield of salvation; Your right hand upholds me, and Your gentleness exalts me.
- Ps 86:17Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
- 2 Cor 1:4–5who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
- Ps 32:10Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
- Ps 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
- Isa 49:13Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
- Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- Ps 72:11May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.
- 2 Cor 2:14But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.
- Isa 9:7Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- 1 Th 3:9How can we adequately thank God for you in return for our great joy over you in His presence?
- Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- 2 Cor 7:13On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.
- 2 Cor 7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
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