Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
Parallel translations
- WEB Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- KJV Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
- ESV Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
- NKJV Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.
- NASB Look at my misery and my trouble, And forgive all my sins.
- NLT Feel my pain and see my trouble. Forgive all my sins.
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Quick answer
David asks God to look on his affliction and trouble and to forgive all his sins. He links his suffering with his need for pardon.
Overview
David prays that God would consider his pain and travail and grant forgiveness for all his sins. He recognizes that his deepest need is not merely relief but pardon. This joining of affliction and the plea for forgiveness points to the gospel, where Christ bears both the sins and sorrows of his people, securing full forgiveness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 2 Sam 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- Ps 119:132Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
- Ps 51:8–9Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
- Matt 9:2Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
- 1 Sam 1:11And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”
- Ps 32:1–5Of David. A Maskil. Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
- Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- Ps 119:153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
- Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
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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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