Psalm 25:17 (WEB)
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
““The tribulations of my heart have been multiplied” (ver. 17).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For these men provoke Him to anger by withstanding justice: for those fettered men perchance would walk, and are not able, and are praying of God that they may be able, and are saying to Him, “From my necessities lead me forth.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxv. 17.
Read the whole comment“Surely it were proof of more profound considerateness and finer feeling were he to recognize the misery of these necessities, and shrink from his own implication in that misery; and had he any piety about him, he would cry to God “From my necessities deliver Thou me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxv. 17.
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John Chrysostom
“And in the Psalms too in his chanting, he said, “Consider mine enemies, that they are multiplied, and they hate me with unjust hatred,” and “forgive all my sins.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxv. 18, 17.
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