Psalms 31:7

Let me be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness:

For thou hast seen my affliction;

Thou hast taken knowledge of the distresses of my soul.

An entreaty, based upon past experience. Here, and in Psalms 31:8, as well as in 5 b, it is more natural to understand the perfect tenses to refer to past mercies, rather than as a confident anticipation of future deliverance. With the second line cp. Psalms 9:13.