Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Parallel translations
- WEB Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- BSB Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away 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 16:12It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
- Ps 119:132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
- Ps 51:8–9Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Matt 9:2And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.
- 1 Sam 1:11And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
- Ps 32:1–5Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- Lam 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Ps 119:153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
- Luke 1:25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
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