John Gill Commentary Psalms 25:17

"The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring thou me out of my distresses." — Psalms 25:17 (ASV)

The troubles of my heart are enlarged
His enemies being increased, which troubled him; the floods of ungodly men made him afraid; the waters of affliction were come into his soul, and spread themselves, and threatened to overwhelm him: or it may be rendered, as by some, "troubles have enlarged my heart" ^F8 ; made him wiser, increased his knowledge and experience; see (Psalms 119:67Psalms 119:71) ; but the former seems better to agree with what follows;

[O] bring thou me out of my distresses ;
or "straits" ^F9 ; for the enlargement of his troubles was the straitening of his heart; and therefore he applies to the Lord to bring him out of his afflicted circumstances, in which he was penned up, as in a strait place, on every side, and which were such that he could not free himself from; but he knew that God could deliver him.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: (wbyxrh) "dilataverunt cor meum", Vatablus; "reddiderunt cor meum latius", Gussetius, p. 786.
• F9: (ytwqwumm) "ab angustiis meis", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius; so Musculus, Piscator, Michaelis.