Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 25:1-7
1. Requests for guidance and pardon 25:1-7 read more
Psalm 25:4-5 Niv
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 25:1-22
Psalms 25David appealed to God for wisdom and forgiveness because of His goodness to Israel. This is one of the acrostic psalms in which each verse in the Hebrew Bible begins with the succeeding letter of the Hebrew alphabet, here with an occasional irregularity. Two verses begin with the letter resh, the letters waw and qof are absent, and the last verse begins with the letter pe, which is out of normal alphabetical order. The psalm is an individual lament that transforms at the end into a... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 25:4-7
The psalmist sensed his need for divine guidance and instruction. He wanted to walk in the Lord’s righteous ways but needed help in discerning them. He also requested forgiveness for the sins of his youth, asking God to remember His compassion and loyal love, but not to remember his transgressions. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 25:1-22
This is the second of the ’acrostic’ or ’alphabetic’ Pss. (cp. 9, 10). As it now stands there are a few irregularities in the arrangement, some of which appear again in Psalms 34. The closing v. suggests the circumstances of the exile, but it is probably an addition, as the last letter of the alphabet is reached in Psalms 25:21. The rest of the Ps. contains nothing to indicate its date or authorship, and its value is independent of any view that may be taken as to these. Some have supposed that... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 25:5
(5) Lead me in thy truth.—Better, make me walk in—i.e., make me to have an actual experience of the Divine faithfulness in my passage through life. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 25:1-22
Psalms 25:7 Pico della Mirandola quotes this text in a letter to his nephew in which he advises him with regard to daily prayer. 'When I stir thee up to prayer,' he wrote, 'I stir thee not to the prayer that standeth in many words, but to that prayer which in the secret chamber of the mind, in the privy-closet of the soul, with very affect speaketh unto God, and in the most lightsome darkness of contemplation, not only presenteth the mind to the Father, but also uniteth it with Him by... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 25:1-22
Psalms 25:1-22THE recurrence of the phrase "lift up the soul" may have determined the place of this psalm next to Psalms 24:1-10. It is acrostic, but with irregularities. As the text now stands, the second, not the first, word in Psalms 25:2 begins with Beth; Vav is omitted or represented in the "and teach me" of the He verse (Psalms 25:5); Qoph is also omitted, and its place taken by a supernumerary Resh, which letter has thus two verses (Psalms 25:18-19); and Psalms 25:22 begins with Pe, and... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 25:1-22
Psalm 25-39 The fifteen Psalms which follow give the deep soul exercise of the godly. All fifteen, except the thirty-third, are marked as Psalms of David. Much of it expresses undoubtedly his own individual experience during the days of his suffering and at other occasions. Prophetically these Psalms give again the experience of the godly remnant of Israel in the time of trouble, preceding the coming of the King. We also can trace in these experiences much which concerns our Lord in His... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 25:4
25:4 {c} Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.(c) Retain me in the faith of your promise that I swore not on any side. read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 25:4
4, 5. On the ground of former favor, he invokes divine guidance, according to God's gracious ways of dealing and faithfulness. read more