Psalms 25:16

Turn thee unto me -Rather, the Hebrew means: “look upon me.” The idea, however, is that the face of God was, as it were, turned in another direction, or that He was not attentive to him; and he prays that He would turn and behold him; that He would see him in his trouble. And have mercy upon me -The psalmist seems to have felt that if God would look upon him he would pity him. He would see his case to be so sad that He would show him compassion - as, when we see an object of distress, “the eye affects the heart.” For I am desolate -The word here rendered “desolate” -יחידyâchı̂yd- means properly “one alone, only;” and then, one who “is alone,” or who is solitary, forsaken, wretched.