The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.
David does not waver and gaze about like the heathen, seeking help from the world while forsaking God; he directs all his desires and prayers to God alone. Nothing is more opposed to true prayer than to waver between the creature and the Creator.
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Commenting on Psalm 25:1-22
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. When trouble penetrates the heart it is trouble indeed. In the case before us, the heart was swollen with grief like a lake surcharged with water by enormous floods; this is used as an argument for deliverance, and it is a potent one.
David's feet are caught in the net, entangled so he cannot free himself; his troubles multiply until his heart swells with melancholy and pain. Sense of sin afflicts him more than anything else, wounding his spirit and making all outward troubles weigh heavily upon him.
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Commenting on Psalm 25:15-22