the Fourth Sunday after Easter
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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 25:18
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Consider my affliction and trouble,and forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Look at my suffering and troubles, and take away all my sins.
See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!
Look upon my affliction and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.
Look at my misery and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
Looke vpon mine affliction and my trauel, and forgiue all my sinnes.
See my affliction and my trouble,And forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
See my troubles and misery and forgive my sins.
See my affliction and suffering, and take all my sins away.
Consider mine affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins.
Look at my trials and troubles. Forgive me for all the sins I have done.
Look upon my affliction and my labor; and forgive all my sins.
Consider my distress and suffering and forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Look on my affliction and my pain, and lift up all my sins.
Loke vpon my aduersite and misery, and forgeue me all my synnes.
Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.
See mine affliction and my travail; and forgive all my sins.
Looke vpon mine affliction, aud my paine, and forgiue all my sinnes.
Loke thou vpon myne aduersitie and vpon my labour: and forgeue me all my sinne.
Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins.
Consider mine affliction and my travail; and forgive all my sins.
Se thou my mekenesse and my trauel; and foryyue thou alle my trespassis.
Consider my affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.
Feel my pain and see my trouble. Forgive all my sins.
Look upon my troubles and my pain, and forgive all my sins.
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
Behold my humiliation and my pain, and take away all my sins.
(24-18) See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.
Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.
Look upon my affliction and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Look: Psalms 119:132, Psalms 119:153, 1 Samuel 1:11, 2 Samuel 16:12, Lamentations 5:1, Luke 1:25
forgive: Psalms 32:1-5, Psalms 51:8, Psalms 51:9, Matthew 9:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:32 - looked 1 Samuel 9:16 - looked upon 2 Chronicles 6:39 - forgive Job 10:9 - Remember Job 10:15 - see Psalms 31:7 - for Psalms 39:8 - Deliver Psalms 40:13 - Be Psalms 69:14 - let me Lamentations 1:9 - behold Luke 11:4 - forgive us
Cross-References
The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba, Dedan.
Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
The Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into the tar pits, but the rest escaped into the mountains. The four kings captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, all their food and equipment, and went on their way. They captured Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom at the time, taking everything he owned with them.
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Abraham got up early the next morning, got some food together and a canteen of water for Hagar, put them on her back and sent her away with the child. She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba. When the water was gone, she left the child under a shrub and went off, fifty yards or so. She said, "I can't watch my son die." As she sat, she broke into sobs.
When her time to give birth came, sure enough, there were twins in her womb. The first came out reddish, as if snugly wrapped in a hairy blanket; they named him Esau (Hairy). His brother followed, his fist clutched tight to Esau's heel; they named him Jacob (Heel). Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
Then Saul went after Amalek, from the canyon all the way to Shur near the Egyptian border. He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive. Everyone else was killed under the terms of the holy ban. Saul and the army made an exception for Agag, and for the choice sheep and cattle. They didn't include them under the terms of the holy ban. But all the rest, which nobody wanted anyway, they destroyed as decreed by the holy ban.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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; or the "labour" k, as the word may be rendered; the toil and fatigue of body he was exercised with, he flying from place to place; and he desires that God would look upon all this with an eye of pity and compassion to him, and arise to his help and deliverance; as he looked upon the affliction of the children of Israel in Egypt, and delivered them, Exodus 3:7;
and forgive all my sins; or "lift up", "bear", or "take away" l, as the word signifies; sins are burdens, and they lay heavy at this time on David's conscience, being brought to mind by the affliction he laboured under, not only his sin with Bathsheba, but all others; and these were on him as a heavy burden, too heavy to bear; wherefore he entreats that the Lord would lift them off, and take them away from him, by the fresh discoveries of pardoning grace to him. The sins of God's people are removed from them to Christ, by his Father, on whom they have been laid by his act of imputation; and he has bore them, and all the punishment due unto them, and, has taken them away, and made an end of them; and through the application of his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, they are caused to pass from the consciences of the saints, and are removed as far from them as the east is from the west; and this is what the psalmist here desires, and this he requests with respect to all his sins, knowing well that, if one was left upon him, it would be an insupportable burden to him.
k עמלי "laborem meum", Pagninus, Mortanus, Junius Tremellius, &c. l ושא Heb. "tolle", Piscator "aufer", Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 piety thus pleads with God, and repeats the earnest supplication for His help. Though God seems not to regard the prayer, faith does not fail, but renews the supplication, confident that He will still hear and save.
And forgive all my sins - The mind, as above remarked, connects trouble and sin together. When we are afflicted, we naturally inquire whether the affliction is not on account of some particular transgressions of which we have been guilty; and even when we cannot trace any direct connection with sin, affliction suggests the general fact that we are sinners, and that all our troubles are originated by that fact. One of the benefits of affliction, therefore, is to call to our remembrance our sins, and to keep before the mind the fact that we are violators of the law of God. This connection between suffering and sin, in the sense that the one naturally suggests the other, was more than once illustrated in the miracles performed by the Saviour. See Matthew 9:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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.
This is the verse which should begin with the letter koph; but, instead of it, we have ר resh both here, where it should not be, and in the next verse where it should be. Dr. Kennicott reads קומה kumah, "arise," and Houbigant, קצר ketsar, "cut short.." The word which began with ק koph has been long lost out of the verse, as every version seems to have read that which now stands in the Hebrew text.
