Psalms 25:16 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 25:16

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

KJV

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ASV

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

WEB

Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.

YLT

Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted am I.

DBT

Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; for I am solitary and afflicted.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

13 verses on the floor

Psalms 4:1
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 86:16
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms 69:16
Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms 130:1
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
Micah 7:19
He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

A series of earnest appeals for aid because God had seemed to desert him (compare Ps 13:1; 17:13, &c.), his sins oppressed him, his enemies had enlarged his troubles and were multiplied, increasing in hate and violence (Ps 9:8;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is common for those that are afflicted to be desolate; their friends desert them then, and they are themselves disposed to sit alone and keep silence, Lam. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And, if God turn to us, no matter who turns from us. His condition was troubled, and, in reference to that, he prays, " O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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