Psalm 71:20 {70:20}
Good News Translation
You have sent troubles and suffering on me, but you will restore my strength; you will keep me from the grave.

New Revised Standard Version
You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

Contemporary English Version
You made me suffer a lot, but you will bring me back from this deep pit and give me new life.

New American Bible
Whatever bitter afflictions you sent me, you would turn and revive me. From the watery depths of the earth once more raise me up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:

which

Psalm 40:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me. . . .

Psalm 60:3 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

Psalm 66:10-12 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried. . . .

Psalm 88:6 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death.

Psalm 138:7 If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Mark 14:33,34 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?

2 Corinthians 11:23-31 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

quicken

Psalm 80:18 And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Hosea 6:1,2 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord. . . .

Acts 2:24,32-34 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. . . .

shall bring

Psalm 16:10 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; nor wilt thou give thy holy one to see corruption.

Psalm 40:2 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.

Psalm 86:13 For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Ezekiel 37:12,13 Therefore prophesy, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will open your graves, and will bring you out of your sepulchres, O my people: and will bring you into the land of Israel. . . .

Jonah 2:6 The waters compassed me about even to the soul: the deep hath closed me round about, the sea hath covered my head.

Ephesians 4:9 Now that he ascended, what is it, but because he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

Context
In You, O LORD, I Have Taken Refuge
19And thy justice, O God, even to the highest great things thou hast done: O God, who is like to thee? 20How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:21Thou hast multiplied thy magnificence; and turning to me thou hast comforted me.…
Cross References
Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Psalm 60:3
Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink the wine of sorrow.

Psalm 80:18
And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

Psalm 85:6
Thou wilt turn, O God, and bring us to life: and thy people shall rejoice in thee.

Psalm 86:13
For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Psalm 119:25
My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:37
Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

Psalm 138:7
If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation, thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies: and thy right hand hath saved me.

Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Hosea 6:2
For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

Habakkuk 3:2
O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

Psalm 71:19
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