the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Mazmur 25:16
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Berpalinglah kepadaku dan kasihanilah aku, sebab aku sebatang kara dan tertindas.
Palingkanlah kiranya diri-Mu kepadaku dan sayangkanlah aku, karena aku dalam kesunyian dan kesukaran.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Turn: Psalms 60:1, Psalms 69:16, Psalms 86:16, Micah 7:19
for I: Psalms 69:14-20, Psalms 88:15-18, Psalms 143:4, Daniel 9:17, Mark 15:33-35
Reciprocal: Psalms 39:10 - Remove Psalms 130:1 - Out of Psalms 141:8 - leave not my soul destitute
Cross-References
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Abraham toke Ismael his sonne, and such as were borne in his house, & al that was bought with money, as many as were men chyldren, whiche were amongst the men of Abrahams house, & circumcised the fleshe of their foreskinne euen in the selfe same day, as God had sayde vnto hym.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me,.... Or "look unto me", or "upon me" f; which suggests that the Lord had turned himself, and hid his face from him; and expresses a desire that he would look upon him with a look of love and mercy, and arise to help and deliver him out of the hands of his enemies; he pleads no merits nor works of righteousness of his, but casts himself upon the mercy of God;
for I [am] desolate and afflicted; or "alone and poor" g; not that he was quite alone, and had none with him; for though he was obliged to quit his palace, and the city of Jerusalem, yet he was accompanied by his servants, and a large number of his people; and could not be poor, in a literal sense, being king of Israel; yet he put no trust in men, nor in riches, but wholly depended on the Lord, as if he had none with him, nor anything to subsist with: and his case was indeed very deplorable, and called for pity and assistance; his own son was risen up against him, and the hearts of the men of Israel went after him; and he was obliged to flee from the city, and leave his house and family.
f פנה אלי "respice ad me", Montanus, Musculus, Junius Tremellius, c. g יהיד ועני "solitarius et pauper", Junius & Tremellius "et miser", Gejerus, Michaelis so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Turn thee unto me - Rather, the Hebrew means: “look upon me.” The idea, however, is that the face of God was, as it were, turned in another direction, or that He was not attentive to him; and he prays that He would turn and behold him; that He would see him in his trouble.
And have mercy upon me - The psalmist seems to have felt that if God would look upon him he would pity him. He would see his case to be so sad that He would show him compassion - as, when we see an object of distress, “the eye affects the heart.”
For I am desolate - The word here rendered “desolate” - יחיד yâchı̂yd - means properly “one alone, only;” and then, one who “is alone,” or who is solitary, forsaken, wretched. There is no deeper sadness that ever comes over the mind than the idea that we are alone in the world; that we do not have a friend; that no one cares for us; that no one is concerned about anything that might happen to us; that no one would care if we were to die; that no one would shed a tear over our grave.
And afflicted - In what way we do not know. David, however, was very often in circumstances when he could use this language. The other parts of the psalm show that the “affliction” to which he here refers was that which arose from the recollection of the sins of his early life, and from the designs and purposes of his enemies.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 25:16. Turn thee unto me — Probably the prayer of the poor captives in Babylon, which is continued through this and the remaining verses.