God’s Word Translation
Psalms 25:18
18Look at my misery and suffering, and forgive all my sins.
Psalms 25:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
- New International Version (NIV)Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive all my sins.
Context of Psalms 25:18
16Turn to me, and have pity on me. I am lonely and oppressed. 17Relieve my troubled heart, and bring me out of my distress. Look at my misery and suffering, and forgive all my sins. 19See how my enemies have increased in number, how they have hated me with vicious hatred! 20Protect my life, and rescue me! Do not let me be put to shame. I have taken refuge in you.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:18 word by word
רְאֵ֣ה עָ֭נְיִי וַעֲמָלִ֑י וְ֝שָׂ֗א לְכָל־חַטֹּאותָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 25:18
- Psalms 119:132Turn toward me, and have pity on me as you have pledged to do for those who love your name.
- 1 Samuel 1:11She made this vow, “Lord of Armies, if you will look at my misery, remember me, and give me a boy, then I will give him to you for as long as he lives. A razor will never be used on his head.”
- 2 Samuel 16:12Maybe the Lord will see my misery and turn his curse into a blessing for me today.”
- Lamentations 5:1“Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace!
- Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me now. He has removed my public disgrace.”
- Psalms 32:1Blessed is the person whose disobedience is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned.
- Psalms 51:8Let me hear ⌞sounds of⌟ joy and gladness. Let the bones that you have broken dance.
- Matthew 9:2Some people brought him a paralyzed man on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Cheer up, friend! Your sins are forgiven.”
Commentaries on Psalms 25:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Look upon mine affliction - See my distressed condition, and thy eye will affect thy heart. Forgive all my sins - My sins are the cause of all my sufferings; forgive these. This is the verse which should begin with the letter ק koph ; but, instead of it, we have ר resh both here, where it should not be, and in the next verse where it should be. Dr. Kennicott reads קומה kumah, "arise," and Houbigant, קצר ketsar, "cut short." The word which began with ק…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Look upon mine affliction and my pain - See Psalm 25:16. This is a repetition of earnest pleading - as if God still turned away from him, and did not deign to regard him. In trouble and distress piety thus pleads with God, and repeats the earnest supplication for His help. Though God seems not to regard the prayer, faith does not fail, but renews the supplication, confident that He will still hear and save. And forgive all my sins - The mind, as above…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-22Verses 15-22 The psalmist concludes, as he began, with expressing dependence upon God, and desire toward him. It is good thus to hope, and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. And if God turns to us, no matter who turns from us. He pleads his own integrity. Though guilty before God, yet, as to his enemies, he had the testimony of conscience that he had done them no wrong. God would, at length, give Israel rest from all their enemies round about…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-18The psalmist finds no relief (see Psalms 4:1; 13:1–2) as his problems worsen. He connects his anguish to sin but does not explain the nature of his sin (see Psalm 25:7, 11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1916-19. A series of earnest appeals for aid because God had seemed to desert him (compare Psa 13:1; 17:13, &c.), his sins oppressed him, his enemies had enlarged his troubles and were multiplied, increasing in hate and violence (Psa 9:8; 18:48).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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