Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive 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.
- BSB Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.
- ESV Consider my affliction and my trouble, 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 Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
- Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
- Ps 51:8–9Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
- Matt 9:2Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”
- 1 Sam 1:11She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
- Ps 32:1–5By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- Lam 5:1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
- Ps 119:153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
- Luke 1:25“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”
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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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