“But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
The affirmation that the psalmist will hope continually and will add to all praise articulates that despite current affliction, confidence in God's eventual response will sustain hope. The commitment to adding praise indicates that worship will continue to grow. This verse establishes that hope will not be abandoned despite delay.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:14
1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivers us commends itself to us, in order that it may have us commended. This is sung of in this Psalm, whereof we have undertaken to speak....This grace the Apostle commends: by this he got to have the Jews for enemies, boasting of the letter of the law and of their own justice. This then commending in the lesson which has been read, he says thus: “For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not worthy to be called an…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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