“Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.”
The reference to God showing troubles many and severe, and then reviving, establishes the pattern of affliction followed by restoration. The reference to bringing from the depths of the earth indicates rescue from the extremity of death and despair. This verse establishes the pattern of the psalmist's life: testing followed by divine restoration.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:20
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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