Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Parallel translations
- WEB Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
- BSB Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your 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 is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Ps 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
- Ps 119:141I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
- Ps 25:19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Prov 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
- Ps 119:98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- Lam 2:20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
- Exod 3:7–8And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Ps 13:3–4Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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