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Verse Psalms 25:18. _LOOK UPON MINE AFFLICTION_] See my distressed
condition, and thy eye will affect thy heart.
_FORGIVE ALL MY SINS._] My sins are the _cause_ of all my sufferings;
forgive these....
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LOOK UPON MINE AFFLICTION AND MY PAIN - See Psalms 25:16. This is a
repetition of earnest pleading - as if God still turned away from him,
and did not deign to regard him. In trouble and distress piet...
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PSALM 25-39
The fifteen Psalms which follow give the deep soul exercise of the
godly. All fifteen, except the thirty-third, are marked as Psalms of
David. Much of it expresses undoubtedly his own indi...
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XXV. An acrostic poem composed of religious maxims and prayers which
have little or no connexion with each other. The text is imperfect,
for in Psalms 25:18 f. the letter Q is omitted and R is repeate...
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LOOK UPON. See note on "lift up", Psalms 25:1.
AFFLICTION. humiliation.
FORGIVE. bear away. First occurrence in the Psalms.
SINS. Hebrew. _chata._ App-44....
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Renewed prayer, for deliverance and preservation....
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_Look upon_&c. Behold my affliction and my travail. Cp. Psalms 9:13.
_and forgive_ Lit. _take away_, sin being regarded as a burden. Cp.
Psalms 32:1. This verse ought to begin with the letter _Qôph_,...
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FORGIVE ALL MY SINS— David joins this petition to the foregoing one,
because he considered that, whatever afflictions and crosses were
brought upon him, how unjust soever they might be with respect to...
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PSALMS 25
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
An Alphabetical Psalm of Supplication.
ANALYSIS
Seven lines of Direct Address to Jehovah, Psalms 25:1-7; three lines
in Praise of Jehovah, Psalms 25:8-10; one line of Di...
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_LOOK UPON MINE AFFLICTION AND MY PAIN; AND FORGIVE ALL MY SINS._
Forgive all my sins (_ NAASA'_ (H5375)) - literally, 'bear all my
sins;' take them away by the atoning Victim bearing them on Him
(Is...
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This is the second of the 'acrostic' or 'alphabetic' Pss. (cp. 9, 10).
As it now stands there are a few irregularities in the arrangement,
some of which appear again in Psalms 34. The closing v. sugge...
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Psalms 1:41
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Words in boxes are from the Bible.
The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the *
before a word to show an explanation.
The translated Bible tex...
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רְאֵ֣ה עָ֭נְיִי וַ עֲמָלִ֑י וְ֝ שָׂ֗א
לְ
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Psalms 25:1
THE recurrence of the phrase "lift up the soul" may have determined
the place of this psalm next to Psalms 24:1. It is acrostic, but with
irregularities. As the text now stands, the second...
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A PRAYER FOR PARDON AND PROTECTION
Psalms 25:1
This is an acrostic or alphabetical psalm. The verses begin with the
successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, to aid the memory. So also
in Psalms 9:1...
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The sob of a great sorrow sounds throughout this psalm. The
circumstances of its writing were those of desolation, affliction,
distress, travail, as the latter part especially shows. Yet the main
cont...
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I do not interrupt the reading through the whole of these verses;
their plain and obvious meaning they carry along with them. They bear
a decided testimony to divine faithfulness, and man's necessitie...
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Psalms 24
_ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_).
PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
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18._Look upon mine affliction. _By repeating these complaints so
frequently, he plainly shows that the calamities with which he was
assailed were not some slight and trivial evils. And this ought to b...
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Christ has been introduced, not indeed yet in glory, but associating
Himself with the remnant, and suffering even unto death for them.
Hence their whole case can be prophetically gone into. And here f...
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LOOK UPON MINE AFFLICTION AND MY PAIN,.... The "affliction" was the
rebellion of his subjects against him, at the head of which was his
own son; and the "pain" was the uneasiness of mind it gave him;...
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Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Ver. 18. _Look upon mine affliction and my pain_] My griefs, under
which I groan and labour, My concupiscence, saith Aben Ezra, against...
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_The troubles of my heart are enlarged_ My outward troubles are
accompanied with grievous distresses of my mind and heart for my sins,
which have procured them, and for thy great displeasure manifeste...
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Look upon mine affliction and my pain, his dejection due to his misery
and hardship, AND FORGIVE ALL MY SINS, this pardon being the greatest
spiritual gift....
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A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE.
A psalm of David....
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15-22 The psalmist concludes, as he began, with expressing dependence
upon God, and desire toward him. It is good thus to hope, and quietly
to wait for the salvation of the Lord. And if God turns to...
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LOOK UPON WITH COMPASSION, as EXODUS 3:7,8 PSA 31:7 106:44. MY SINS;
the procuring and continuing causes of my trouble....
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THE PSALMIST NOW PRAYS FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS AFFLICTIONS AND AGAIN
FOR FORGIVENESS FOR HIS SINS (PSALMS 25:16).
Following the confidence expressed in the previous verses the
Psalmist's situation no...
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Psalms 25:1. _Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul._
It is down; and I would fain lift it up; yet I am powerless to do so
if I am left to myself. When the soul cleaves to the earth, who but
God ca...
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CONTENTS: Prayer for guidance, forgiveness, mercy and deliverance.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: It is our duty and privilege to trustingly wait upon the
Lord in adoration, supplication and se...
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Psalms 25:1. _To thee, oh Lord, do I lift up my soul_ anew, now in
this time of war and danger.
Psalms 25:5. _On thee do I wait all the day._ David speaks of his
blessing the Lord seven times a day; p...
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_Look upon mine affliction and my pain._
A TROUBLED PRAYER
I. It is well for us when our prayers about our sorrows are linked
with prayers about our sins. Our sorrows profit us when they bring our
s...
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_Turn Thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and
afflicted._
A SUFFERER’S PRAYER
How tender is this language, and how instructive too. David was a
sufferer as well as a king. But he...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 25:1. In this lament, individual members
of the worshiping assembly ask God for help in their various troubles.
While the psalm expresses faith in God’s kindness, it does no...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 25:16 The psalmist prays for deliverance from
the AFFLICTION, TROUBLE, and FOES that threaten (vv....
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INTRODUCTION
“David is pictured in this psalm as in a faithful miniature. His
holy trust, his many conflicts, his great transgression, his bitter
repentance, and his deep distresses are all here; so t...
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EXPOSITION
THIS is the second of the "alphabetic psalms." It is not so irregular
as Psalms 9:1; but still is defective in some respects, the letters
_beth _and _vav _being omitted in their proper plac...
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Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee:
let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. Yea, let
none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which
tra...
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1 Samuel 1:11; 2 Samuel 16:12; Lamentations 5:1; Luke 1:25; Matthew
9:2