Psalms 25:17

The troubles of my heart -The sorrows which spring upon the heart - particularly from the recollections of sin. Are enlarged -Have become great. They increased the more he reflected on the sins of his life. O bring thou me out of my distresses -Alike from my sins, and from the dangers which surround me. These two things, external trouble and the inward consciousness of guilt, are not infrequently combined. Outward trouble has a tendency to bring up the remembrance of past transgressions, and to suggest the inquiry whether the affliction is not a divine visitation for sin. Any one source of sorrow may draw along numerous others in its train.