Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble - The nature and sources of his trouble are specified in the verses following. He s…

Mine eye is consumed ... —Compare to Psalms 6:7. It was an old idea that the eye could weep itself away. It is an actual fact that…

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: min…

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah! To move God to help him, he emphasizes the greatness of his misery and grief by the number of his complaint…

Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble
A sudden change of case and frame this! and so it is with the people…

David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. In this, he was a type of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his affliction…