KJV ORIGINAL
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Lord, you know everything I want and need; my deep pain and struggles are not hidden from you.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The writer is telling God that He sees all of our deepest longings and hears every sound of our pain - nothing is hidden from Him.
📚 Historical Context
This is part of a penitential psalm where David is crying out to God during a time of serious illness, sin, and abandonment by friends. In ancient Hebrew culture, groaning was understood as a deep expression of both physical pain and spiritual anguish that went beyond words. David writes this as someone who feels overwhelmed by guilt and suffering, yet still turns to God with complete honesty about his condition.
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