Consider and hear me - literally, “Look, hear me.” God had seemed to avert His face as if He would not even look upon him ([Referen…

Lighten. —Literally, give light to my eyes that I may not go to sleep in death, that is, go to sleep and never wake; “sle…

When it is dark, very dark, we get drowsy. Sorrow induces sleep. Remember how the Saviour found the disciples sleeping for sorrow. Therefore David …

Look upon me, answer me. When God does not promptly provide assistance to His servants, it seems to the eye of sense that He does not beho…

Consider [and] hear me, O Lord my God
The psalmist amidst all his distresses rightly applies to God by prayer, claim…

1. In the preceding psalm, the psalmist described the deceitfulne of his adversaries; here he begs God for a remedy against them. The title,…