“The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.”
The plea relieve the troubles of the heart and bring the psalmist out of distress expresses the prayer's fundamental longing. The heart troubles suggest psychological and spiritual anguish. The distress suggests overwhelming difficulty. This verse repeats the petition for relief.
Church Fathers on Psalms 25:17
To the end, a psalm of David himself. 1. Christ speaks, but in the person of the Church: for what is said has reference rather to the Christian People turned unto God. 2. “Unto You, O Lord, have I lift up my soul” Psalm 24:1: with spiritual longing have I lift up the soul, that was trodden down on the earth with carnal longings. “O my God, in You I trust, I shall not be ashamed” Psalm 24:2. O my God, from trusting in myself I was brought even to this weakness of the flesh;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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