Verse 17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged ,.... His enemies being increased, which troubled him; the floods of ungodly men made him afraid; the waters of affliction were come into his soul, and spread themselves, and threatened to overwhelm him: or it may be rendered, as by some, "troubles have enlarged my heart" F8 הרחיבו "dilataverunt cor meum", Vatablus; "reddiderunt cor meum latius", Gussetius, p. 786. ; made him wiser, increased his knowledge and experience; see Psalm 119:67 ; but the former seems better to agree with what follows;
O bring thou me out of my distresses ; or "straits" F9 ממצוקותי "ab angustiis meis", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius; so Musculus, Piscator, Michaelis. ; for the enlargement of his troubles was the straitening of his heart; and therefore he applies to the Lord to bring him out of his afflicted circumstances, in which he was penned up, as in a strait place, on every side, and which were such that he could not free himself from; but he knew that God could deliver him.
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