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Psalm 119:153
Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
151You are near, LORD. All your commandments are truth.
152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH
153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
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The plea for God to consider affliction expresses a need to be seen, while remembering his law remains part of the sufferer’s prayer.
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Proverbs 3:1My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,Proverbs urges the son to remember teaching and keep commandments; the psalmist declares that he remembers God’s law amid affliction.
Psalm 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.Psalm 119 asks God to consider affliction; Psalm 31 rejoices that God has seen affliction and known the sufferer’s distress.
Deuteronomy 26:13You shall say before the LORD your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the …Both passages address God with a declaration of regard for his commandments, though Deuteronomy concerns the distribution of holy things.
Lamentations 5:1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.Both prayers ask God to look at suffering, with Lamentations speaking for a people and the psalmist speaking for himself.
Psalm 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.Both verses join a plea for God’s help with a declaration that the speaker has not forgotten his commands.
Psalm 9:13Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,Both prayers ask God to see affliction and rescue the sufferer; Psalm 9 names hatred and the threat of death.
Psalm 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.Both verses ask God to consider the speaker’s condition and bring help, while expressing attachment to God’s instruction.
Lamentations 1:9Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, LORD, my …Both passages appeal to God to see affliction; Lamentations makes that plea amid uncleanness, lost comfort, and an enemy’s triumph.
Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.Job considers suffering even if he is righteous; the psalmist suffers while remembering God’s law.
Lamentations 2:20“Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the …Both prayers ask God to look at suffering; Lamentations makes that plea amid cannibalism and killing in the sanctuary.
Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you …Both prayers ask God to take suffering into account, with Nehemiah naming the long distress of a whole people.
Exodus 3:7–8The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their …The psalmist asks God to consider his affliction; in Exodus, God declares that he has seen his people’s affliction.
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Remembering God’s law does not make the psalmist’s affliction disappear. Your request for relief can be plain: faithfulness and the need for help belong in the same prayer.
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