--- title: "Psalm 25:16-17 | Bible Nudge" description: "Read Psalm 25:16-17 in the World English Bible, with what surrounds the passage and a question to sit with." url: "https://biblenudge.com/context/psalm-25-16-17" lang: "en" image: "https://biblenudge.com/og/default.jpg" alternates: es: "https://biblenudge.com/es/contexto/salmo-25-16-17.md" --- [Your nudge](https://biblenudge.com/nudge) Read the passage # Psalm 25:16-17 World English Bible Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. ## What surrounds this passage Psalm 25 is a prayer of David asking God for attention, guidance and mercy. In these two verses the speaker describes his own condition and asks God to look at him. The psalm does not resolve the trouble here; it keeps asking. The verses on either side Psalm 25:13-20, World English Bible 1. His soul shall dwell at ease. His offspring shall inherit the land. 2. The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. 3. My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. 4. Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. 5. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. 6. Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. 7. Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. 8. Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you. Verse 18 is here because the psalm is, and it is deliberately not part of the passage this site delivers for loneliness. It turns to sin and forgiveness, and arriving right after somebody has said they are lonely it can be read as connecting the two. The review excluded it from the delivered lines rather than from the page. A question to sit with If you could ask for one thing to be noticed today, what would it be? Why this one, and not these 7 passages were considered for this and turned down, each for a reason written at the time. Psalm 25:18 Excluded from the delivered range although it is the next verse. It turns to sin and forgiveness, and offered to somebody who has just said they are lonely it invites the reading that their loneliness is connected to their sin. The verse is not hidden; the whole psalm remains open to anybody reading on. Psalm 68:6 The strongest search alignment in the evidence cluster and the highest pastoral risk in it. It states an outcome, and read as a promise it tells a lonely person their circumstance will change. To a reader for whom it does not, that is a broken promise. Hebrews 13:5 Widely used for this experience, but its own sentence is about contentment with possessions. Detached from it, the promise can be heard as telling a lonely person that God's presence should be sufficient and their want of human company is a failure of contentment. That is a rebuke, and this product does not rebuke. Genesis 2:18 It names aloneness as not good in God's own speech, which is valuable, but its immediate context is the making of a partner and it can imply that the answer to loneliness is a spouse. Psalm 139:7-12 Not rejected on its merits. It addresses presence in isolation and is held for a possible subtopic rather than merged into this delivery. 2 Timothy 4:16-17 Not rejected on its merits. It addresses abandonment by people specifically and is held for a possible subtopic. Mark 14:32-38 Not rejected on its merits. It addresses being alone while other people are present, needs its narrative to work, and does not reduce to a single verse. Written about this passage - [Bible Verses for the Empty Nest: When the Last Child Leaves Home](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-empty-nest) The youngest has gone and the house is quiet. Psalm 25:16-17 for the first evenings, Hannah's little robe, Rebekah's ten more days, and words to bless a grown child. - [Bible Verses for Feeling Left Out: Leah, Hagar and a God Who Sees](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-feeling-left-out) Left out of the photos, the group chat or the church circle? Psalm 25:16-17 to pray tonight, Leah and Hagar, and what to do when it keeps happening. - [Bible Verses for Loneliness and Sadness: Turn to Me, for I Am Desolate](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-loneliness-and-sadness) Lonely and sad, alone or surrounded by people? Psalm 25:16-17 gives words to pray, with the people in Scripture who said they were alone, and when to see a doctor. - [Bible Verses for Loneliness in Marriage: Alone With Someone](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-loneliness-in-marriage) Lonely in your marriage? Psalm 25:16-17 to pray as it stands, Hannah, who was loved and still wept alone, and Genesis 2:18 read in its setting, with help by country. - [Bible Verses for Moving to a New Place: For the First Nights Somewhere New](https://biblenudge.com/blog/bible-verses-for-moving-to-a-new-place) Just moved, or about to? Psalm 25:16-17 for the first night, Jacob's night at Bethel, Psalm 137 on missing home, and verses for a new house. - [Leah Name Meaning in the Bible: Who Leah Was, What Her Name Means, and the Woman Genesis Says God Saw](https://biblenudge.com/blog/leah-name-meaning-bible) What Leah means, who she was in Genesis, where she is buried, and Psalm 25:16-17 for anyone who has felt like second choice. - [What Does the Bible Say About Loneliness? Chosen Solitude, Singleness and the Whole of Psalm 25](https://biblenudge.com/blog/what-does-the-bible-say-about-loneliness) The Bible keeps the words of people who said they were alone. Psalm 25:16-17 to pray tonight, Elijah and Paul, singleness, and when church feels lonelier than home. - [When Loneliness Is Affecting Your Health: What the New Study Found, a First Step This Week, and Psalm 25 to Pray](https://biblenudge.com/blog/when-loneliness-is-affecting-your-health) This week's loneliness study in plain terms, small steps for this week, people to call, and Psalm 25:16-17 to pray tonight. - [When Your Parent Lives Alone: Daily Check-In Calls, Where to Find One, How to Ask, and Psalm 25 for the Worry](https://biblenudge.com/blog/when-your-parent-lives-alone-daily-check-in-calls) A parent on their own and a phone that may go unanswered: where to ask for a regular check-in call, how to raise it, and Psalm 25:16-17. - [Who in the Bible Was Lonely: Jeremiah, Joseph, Job, Anna, the People Put Outside the Camp, and Jesus](https://biblenudge.com/blog/who-in-the-bible-was-lonely) People in Scripture who were alone, grouped by where it came from, with a prayer to read beside them. 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