¶Look at 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.
- 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.
- NLT Look upon my suffering and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instructions.
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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, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Ps 9:13Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
- Ps 119:141I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
- Ps 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
- Prov 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
- Ps 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
- Lam 2:20“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Exod 3:7–8Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
- Ps 13:3–4Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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