Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 25:17
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.”
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.”
Verse Psalms 25:17. _THE TROUBLES OF MAY HEART ARE ENLARGED_] The evils of our captive state, instead of lessening, seem to multiply, and each to be extended....
THE TROUBLES OF MY HEART - The sorrows which spring upon the heart - particularly from the recollections of sin. ARE ENLARGED - Have become great. They increased the more he reflected on the sins of...
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...
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...
ENLARGED, &C.: or, troubles have enlarged my heart: i.e. made it more sympathetic. O BRING: or Thou hast brought....
Renewed prayer, for deliverance and preservation....
The verb rendered _are enlarged_cannot mean -augmented." It is all but certain that the consonants should be divided and vocalised differently, giving the appropriate sense, The straitnesses of my hea...
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...
_THE TROUBLES OF MY HEART ARE ENLARGED: O BRING THOU ME OUT OF MY DISTRESSES._ The troubles of my heart. "The troubles" - lit, 'straitnesses' (_ TSAAROWT_ (H6869)), standing in emphatic contrast to ...
25:17 bring (k-8) Some read 'Enlarge my heart in its troubles, and bring ...' Others read 'The troubles of my heart relieve thou, and bring ...'...
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...
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...
צָרֹ֣ות לְבָבִ֣י הִרְחִ֑יבוּ מִ֝ מְּצֽוּקֹותַ֗י הֹוצִיאֵֽנִי׃...
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...
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...
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...
The troubles of my heart (n) are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses. (n) My grief is increased because of my enemies cruelty....
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...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
17._The troubles of my heart are enlarged. _In this verse he acknowledges not only that he had to contend outwardly with his enemies and the troubles which they occasioned him, but that he was also af...
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...
THE TROUBLES OF MY HEART ARE ENLARGED,.... His enemies being increased, which troubled him; the floods of ungodly men made him afraid; the waters of affliction were come into his soul, and spread them...
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: [O] bring thou me out of my distresses. Ver. 17. _The troubles of my heart are enlarged_] Whereby my heart is sorely straitened, so that I can hardly breathe: O...
_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...
The troubles of my heart are enlarged, distresses had extended themselves and spread out over his heart, engulfing it beneath their flood. O BRING THOU ME OUT OF MY DISTRESSES! leading him out of all...
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
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...
THE TROUBLES OF MY HEART; my outward troubles are accompanied with grievous torments of my mind and heart for my sins, which have procured them, and thy great displeasure manifested in them....
Psalms 25:17 troubles H6869 heart H3824 enlarged H7337 (H8689) out H3318 (H8685) distresses H4691...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 25:16 The psalmist prays for deliverance from the AFFLICTION, TROUBLE, and FOES that threaten (vv....
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:9; Habakkuk 3:17;...