Psalms 25:16
What meaning of the psalms 25:16 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 25:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted."
What does Psalms 25:16 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted."
Verse Psalms 25:16. _TURN THEE UNTO ME_] Probably the prayer of the poor captives in Babylon, which is continued through this and the remaining verses....
TURN THEE UNTO ME - Rather, the Hebrew means: “look upon me.” The idea, however, is that the face of God was, as it were, turned in another direction, or that He was not attentive to him; and he prays...
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...
HAVE MERCY UPON. show kindness to. Hebrew. _hanan._ Not the same word as in verses: Psalms 25:6; Psalms 25:7. DESOLATE. [Thine] only One. Hebrew. _yachid._ See note on Deuteronomy 6:4. Septuagint. _m...
Renewed prayer, for deliverance and preservation....
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...
_TURN THEE UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME; FOR I AM DESOLATE AND AFFLICTED._ Turn thee unto me ... for I am desolate - literally, 'solitary' (Psalms 68:6). David, though a king; with large armies fe...
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...
פְּנֵה ־אֵלַ֥י וְ חָנֵּ֑נִי כִּֽי ־יָחִ֖יד וְ עָנִ֣י אָֽנִי׃...
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...
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_)....
16._Have respect unto me. _As the flesh is ever ready to suggest to our minds that God has forgotten us, when he ceases to manifest his power in aiding us, David here follows the order which nature di...
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...
TURN THEE UNTO ME, AND HAVE MERCY UPON ME,.... Or "look unto me", or "upon me" f; which suggests that the Lord had turned himself, and hid his face from him; and expresses a desire that he would look...
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I [am] desolate and afflicted. Ver. 16. _Turn thee unto me_] Heb. Face about towards me. _ And have mercy upon me_] There being no such mercy as to hav...
_Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord_ My trust is in him, and my expectation of relief is from him only. _He shall pluck my feet out of the net_ He will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribula...
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 u...
TURN THEE UNTO ME; turn thy face and favour to me, O thou who now hast turned thy back upon me, and forsaken me. I AM DESOLATE; destitute of all other hopes and succours; persecuted by mine enemies, a...
Psalms 25:16 Turn H6437 (H8798) mercy H2603 (H8798) desolate H3173 afflicted H6041 Turn - Psalms 60:1, Psalms 69:16, Psalms 86:16; Micah 7:19 for I - Psalms 69:14-20,...
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 n...
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;...
_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...
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...
Daniel 9:17; Micah 7:19; Mark 15:33; Psalms 60:1; Psalms 69:16; Psalms 86:16; Psalms 69:14-2...