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Consider my affliction, and deliver me, For I don`t forget your law.
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A Plea for God's Attention
The psalmist's plea for God to 'consider' his affliction is not to inform an unaware God, but to ask for His compassionate attention and action. Commentators explain this is a cry for God to look with pity and not treat the suffering as insignificant. It models how we can appeal to God to actively engage with our pain and bring deliverance.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Consider my affliction ... - This begins a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Resh (ר …
19th Century
Baptist
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvat…
16th Century
Protestant
Behold my affliction and rescue me. The Psalmist teaches by his own example that those who are devoted to the service and fear of God must…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(r) , RESH.--The Twentieth Part .
Psalms 119:153
The closer we cling to the word of God, both as our rule and as our support, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of H…
