Psalm 25:17 - To You I Lift Up My Soul

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To You I Lift Up My Soul
…16Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress. 18Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.…

Cross References

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.Psalm 107:6
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

Psalm 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psalm 38:1-8
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure…

Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

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Psalm 25

1. David's confidence in prayer
7. He prays for remission of sins
16. and for help in affliction

(17) The troubles.--The consensus of commentators is for a different division of the Hebrew words.

. . . "Relieve my sore heart,

And release me from my distress."

Verses 17, 18. - The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. The affliction, of whatever kind it may have been, was regarded by David as a punishment sent on him for his sins. Of his sins he was at this time deeply conscious (vers. 7, 11) and deeply repentant. Probably they included his great sin (see the comment on ver. 11). Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

The troubles
צָר֣וֹת (ṣā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

of my heart
לְבָבִ֣י (lə·ḇā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

increase;
הִרְחִ֑יבוּ (hir·ḥî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7337: To be or grow wide or large

free me
הוֹצִיאֵֽנִי׃ (hō·w·ṣî·’ê·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from my distress.
מִ֝מְּצֽוּקוֹתַ֗י (mim·mə·ṣū·qō·w·ṯay)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4691: Narrowness, trouble

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