The Bible: Psalms Chapter 25: with Audio and Commentary.

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Psalms Chapter 25 By David.

1 To you, LORD, I lift up my soul.

2 My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.

3 Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

4 Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.

5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

6 LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

7 Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, LORD.

8 Good and upright is the LORD, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

9 He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

10 All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

11 For your name's sake, LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

12 What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

13 His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

14 The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

15 My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

22 Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.

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Psalms Chapter 25 By David. Guide

The sob of a great sorrow sounds throughout this psalm. The circumstances of its writing were those of desolation, affliction, distress, travail, as the latter part especially shows. Yet the main content is one full of help to all who are in sorrow. It is far more than a wail saddening all who read it. It is the voice of hope and confidence, and tells of succour and of strength.

It has three movements in it. The first (vv. Psalms 25:1-7), and the last (vv. Psalms 25:16-22) are prayers uttered out of great need. The central (vv. Psalms 25:8-15) is contemplation and declaration of the goodness of God. Thus structurally the psalm is beautiful. Its central glory is a revelation of God’s goodness and patience (vv. Psalms 25:8-10). Then a sob at the heart of everything (v. Psalms 25:11). Immediately an account of the blessedness of the man who trusts. The opening verses contain the prayer of a distressed soul, whose thought of God is revealed in the central portion. The closing verses are the earnest cry of that soul to such a God, and in such confidence the details of the experience of suffering are named.

From "An Exposition of the Whole Bible" by G. Campbell Morgan.

Psalms Chapter 25 Commentary

Chapter Outline

  1. Confidence in prayer. -- (1-7)
  2. Prayer for remission of sins. -- (8-14)
  3. For help in affliction. -- (15-22)

Verses 1-7

In worshipping God, we must lift up our souls to him. It is certain that none who, by a believing attendance, wait on God, and, by a believing hope, wait for him, shall be ashamed of it. The most advanced believer both needs and desires to be taught of God. If we sincerely desire to know our duty, with resolution to do it, we may be sure that God will direct us in it. The psalmist is earnest for the pardon of his sins. When God pardons sin, he is said to remember it no more, which denotes full remission. It is God's goodness, and not ours, his mercy, and not our merit, that must be our plea for the pardon of sin, and all the good we need. This plea we must rely upon, feeling our own unworthiness, and satisfied of the riches of God's mercy and grace. How boundless is that mercy which covers for ever the sins and follies of a youth spent without God and without hope! Blessed be the Lord, the blood of the great Sacrifice can wash away every stain. Verses 8-14

We are all sinners; and Christ came into the world to save sinners, to teach sinners, to call sinners to repentance. We value a promise by the character of him that makes it; we therefore depend upon God's promises. All the paths of the Lord, that is, all his promises and all his providences, are mercy and truth. In all God's dealings his people may see his mercy displayed, and his word fulfilled, whatever afflictions they are now exercised with. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; and so it will appear when they come to their journey's end. Those that are humble, that distrust themselves, and desire to be taught and to follow Divine guidance, these he will guide in judgment, that is, by the rule of the written word, to find rest for their souls in the Saviour. Even when the body is sick, and in pain, the soul may be at ease in God.

Verses 15-22

The psalmist concludes, as he began, with expressing dependence upon God, and desire toward him. It is good thus to hope, and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. And if God turns to us, no matter who turns from us. He pleads his own integrity. Though guilty before God, yet, as to his enemies, he had the testimony of conscience that he had done them no wrong. God would, at length, give Israel rest from all their enemies round about. In heaven, God's Israel will be perfectly redeemed from all troubles. Blessed Saviour, thou hast graciously taught us that without thee we can do nothing. Do thou teach us how to pray, how to appear before thee in the way which thou shalt choose, and how to lift up our whole hearts and desires after thee, for thou art the Lord our righteousness.

From the "Concise Commentary on the Bible" by Matthew Henry.