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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/24.htm" title="Psalm 24">◄</a> Psalm 25 <a href="../psalms/26.htm" title="Psalm 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 25</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Prayer for Guidance and for Deliverance</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title"><span class="text">Of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>To you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, I lift up my soul.</span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>O my God, in you I trust;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not let me be put to shame;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not let my enemies exult over me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Make me to know your ways, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">teach me your paths.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Lead me in your truth, and teach me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for you are the God of my salvation;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for you I wait all day long.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Be mindful of your mercy, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and of your steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for they have been from of old.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">according to your steadfast love remember me,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for your goodness’ sake, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Good and upright is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">therefore he instructs sinners in the way.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He leads the humble in what is right,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and teaches the humble his way.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>All the paths of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> are steadfast love and faithfulness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For your name’s sake, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">pardon my guilt, for it is great.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Who are they that fear the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">He will teach them the way that they should choose.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>They will abide in prosperity,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and their children shall possess the land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>The friendship of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is for those who fear him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he makes his covenant known to them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>My eyes are ever toward the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for he will pluck my feet out of the net.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Turn to me and be gracious to me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for I am lonely and afflicted.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Relieve the troubles of my heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and bring me<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16339a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> out of my distress.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Consider my affliction and my trouble,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and forgive all my sins.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Consider how many are my foes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and with what violent hatred they hate me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>O guard my life, and deliver me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>May integrity and uprightness preserve me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for I wait for you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Redeem Israel, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">out of all its troubles.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 25:17">Psalm 25:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>The troubles of my 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