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Psalm 25:17

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

15My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.
16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.
17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
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Notice

The heart’s troubles grow larger here, and the plea for God to bring relief comes while the distress is still unresolved.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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1 Samuel 30:6David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his …Both describe great distress and a turn toward God: the psalm asks for rescue, and David finds strength in the LORD.
Psalm 107:6Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.Both contain a cry to God amid distress; Psalm 25 asks for deliverance, while Psalm 107 recounts it.
Psalm 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.Both connect affliction with deliverance from the LORD: Psalm 25 pleads for it, while Psalm 34 declares it.
2 Corinthians 4:8–9We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;Both speak of distress bearing down on a person; Paul describes pressure without being crushed or driven to despair.
1 Corinthians 4:11–13Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.Both speak from within suffering: Psalm 25 names the heart’s distress, while Paul describes hunger and having no certain dwelling place.
Psalm 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.Both describe overwhelming trouble, one through the heart’s enlarged distress and the other through waves sweeping over the speaker.
Psalm 77:2–4In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.Both turn toward God while trouble persists, with Psalm 77 describing a soul that refuses comfort.
Habakkuk 3:17–19For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from …Both speak of hardship, though Psalm 25 names the heart’s troubles and Habakkuk describes crop failure and empty stalls.
Where this verse fits

Anxiety or panic. grief. waiting.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one growing trouble and ask God for relief

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Encouragement

Your prayer does not have to wait until your heart is calm. Here, a heart with growing troubles still turns to God for rescue.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).