Psalms 71:14 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 71:1–24

Read Psalms 71:14 with 71:1–24. Read alone, “But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 71:1–24, the individual voice carries the movement “Lifelong trust through aging and threat” as part of “Lifelong trust through aging and threat.” Its lament-confidence form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Psalms 71:1–24 opens Psalm 71 with “In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion” and establishes the individual voice and “Lifelong trust through aging and threat” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 71:14 turns the movement by contrasting what precedes it with “But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”