Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
Parallel translations
- WEB Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
- KJV Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
- NKJV Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.
- NASB ¶Look at my affliction and rescue me, For I have not forgotten Your Law.
- NLT Look upon my suffering and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instructions.
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Quick answer
He asks God to see his affliction and deliver him, pleading that he has not forgotten God's law. Faithfulness to the Word is his basis for appeal.
Overview
Beginning the 'Resh' stanza, the psalmist asks God to 'consider' his suffering and rescue him. His evidence is not sinless merit but a heart that has clung to God's law in trial. He looks to God as Deliverer, the role ultimately fulfilled by Christ, who redeems His afflicted people.
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- Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- Ps 119:176I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
- Ps 9:13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
- Ps 119:141I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
- Ps 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
- Prov 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
- Ps 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Ps 119:109I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
- Ps 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
- Lam 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Neh 9:32So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
- Exod 3:7–8The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
- Ps 13:3–4Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
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