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The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
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Inner and Outer Turmoil
Commentators explain that the psalmist's distress was twofold: external troubles from enemies and internal anguish from sorrow and the memory of sin. John Calvin describes this as a flood of trials that fills the whole heart, validating the Christian experience of feeling attacked from both the outside and the inside simultaneously.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The troubles of my heart - The sorrows which spring up in the heart, particularly from the recollections of sin.
Are enlarged
19th Century
Anglican
The troubles. —The consensus of commentators is for a different division of the Hebrew words.
... “Reli…
Baptist
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of any distresses. Look upon my affliction and my pain;
And what follows? "Tak…
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16th Century
Protestant
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. In this verse he acknowledges not only that he had to contend outwardly with his enemies and the tr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The troubles of my heart are enlarged His enemies being increased, which troubled him; the floods of ungodly men mad…
The psalmist concludes, as he began, by expressing dependence on God and desire toward him. It is good so to hope, and quietly to wait for the salv…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist described the tribulations of Christ and the divine help; here he adds a prayer.
He makes two points about…
