Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 25:18

"Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins." — Psalms 25:18 (ASV)

Look upon mine affliction and my pain — . This is a repetition of earnest pleading—as if God still turned away from him and did not condescend to regard him. In trouble and distress, piety pleads with God in this way 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 noted earlier, connects trouble and sin together. When we are afflicted, we naturally inquire whether the affliction is not because of some particular transgressions we have committed. Even when we cannot trace any direct connection with sin, affliction suggests the general fact that we are sinners and that all our troubles originate from that fact. One of the benefits of affliction, therefore, is to remind us of our sins and to keep before the mind the fact that we are violators of the law of God. This connection between suffering and sin, in the sense that one naturally suggests the other, was more than once illustrated in the miracles performed by the Savior. .