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Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-1.htm" title="To you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul....">Psalm 25:1-3</a></span>. <span class="ital">Unto thee do I lift up my soul — </span>That is, I direct my prayers to thee with hope of a gracious answer. <span class="ital">Let me not be ashamed — </span>That is, disappointed of my hope, which will be reproachful to me, and not without reflection upon thee, of whose power and faithfulness I have made my boast. <span class="ital">Let none that wait on thee be ashamed — </span>With me and for me: for if I be frustrated, those that trust in thee will be discouraged, and upbraided with my example. <span class="ital">Let them be ashamed — </span>Blast their wicked designs and hopes, <span class="ital">who transgress — </span>Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">הבגדים</span>, <span class="ital">ha-bogedim, </span>who <span class="ital">prevaricate, </span>or <span class="ital">deal perfidiously, </span>namely, with me, violating their faith given to me; <span class="ital">without a cause — </span>Without any provocation of mine, or without any sufficient reason. Or, by <span class="ital">transgressing without a cause; </span>or <span class="ital">vainly, </span>or <span class="ital">rashly, </span>as <span class="greekheb">ריקם</span>, <span class="ital">reikam, </span>signifies; he may mean, 1st, Transgressing <span class="ital">upon no provocation; </span>and may intend to describe those that revolt from God and their duty, without any occasion given them, not being able to pretend that they have found any iniquity in God, or that in any thing he hath <span class="ital">wearied </span>them. The weaker the temptation is, by which men are induced to sin, the stronger the corruption is by which they are drawn thereto. Those are the worst sinners that sin for sinning’s sake: or, 2d, <span class="ital">To no purpose: </span>they know their attempts against God, and his cause and people, are fruitless, and therefore they will soon be ashamed of them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="2"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-2.htm">Psalm 25:2</a></div><div class="verse">O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.</div><A name="3"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-3.htm">Psalm 25:3</a></div><div class="verse">Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.</div><A name="4"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-4.htm">Psalm 25:4</a></div><div class="verse">Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-4.htm" title="Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.">Psalm 25:4</a>. </span><span class="ital">Show me thy ways, O Lord — </span>That is, the way or thy precepts, what I ought to do in my circumstances and difficulties; by what methods I may obtain thy favour and help. Whatsoever thou doest with me, as to other things, grant me this favour, teach me my duty, and cause me to keep close to it, notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary. Reader, art thou a traveller to heaven? Remember, then, thou art in danger of being drawn aside and losing thy way. The way is marked out in the word of God, and to walk according to that is to walk in the way. God only can put thee in the way, and preserve and forward thee therein, for which purpose continue instant in prayer, after the example of David, to the God of thy salvation, that he would teach thee to know and do his will.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="5"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-5.htm">Psalm 25:5</a></div><div class="verse">Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou <i>art</i> the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-5.htm" title="Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.">Psalm 25:5</a></span>. <span class="ital">Lead me in thy truth — </span>In the true and right way prescribed in thy word, which is often called <span class="ital">truth; </span>or, <span class="ital">through, </span>or, <span class="ital">because of, thy truth; </span>because thou art faithful, lead and guide me as thou hast promised to do. <span class="ital">For thou art the God of my salvation — </span>Who hast saved me formerly, and hast engaged to save me, and from whom alone I expect salvation. <span class="ital">On thee do I wait all the day — </span>In the midst of all my concerns, however important, I am always desiring and expecting thy teaching and direction, being continually disposed and determined to comply with thy will, as far as it is made known.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="6"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-6.htm">Psalm 25:6</a></div><div class="verse">Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they <i>have been</i> ever of old.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-6.htm" title="Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old....">Psalm 25:6-7</a></span>. <span class="ital">Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies — </span>O consider thy own merciful nature, and thy former manifold favours vouchsafed to me, and to other miserable sinners, and act like thyself. <span class="ital">For they have been ever of old</span> — Thou hast been gracious to such as I am from the beginning of the world to this day, and to me in particular from my very infancy; yea, from all eternity thou hast had a good will to me, and therefore do not now desert me. <span class="ital">Remember not — </span>So as to lay them to my charge; <span class="ital">the sins of my youth — </span>The sins committed in my young and tender years; my youthful faults and follies. These God frequently punishes in riper years, (<a href="/job/13-26.htm" title="For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.">Job 13:26</a>,) and therefore he now prays that God would not so deal with him. <span class="ital">Nor my transgressions — </span>Nor any of my succeeding or other sins; <span class="ital">for thy goodness’ sake — </span>Being a sinner, I have nothing to plead for myself but thy free mercy and goodness, which I now implore.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="7"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-7.htm">Psalm 25:7</a></div><div class="verse">Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.</div><A name="8"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-8.htm">Psalm 25:8</a></div><div class="verse">Good and upright <i>is</i> the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-8.htm" title="Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way....">Psalm 25:8-9</a></span>. <span class="ital">Good and upright is the Lord — </span>Bountiful and gracious, ready to do good, and delighting in it: and <span class="ital">right, </span>or <span class="ital">righteous, </span>(as <span class="greekheb">ישׁר</span>, <span class="ital">jashar, </span>here rendered <span class="ital">upright, </span>means,) that is, holy and true, sincere in making promises, and in all his declarations and offers of mercy to sinners, and faithful in fulfilling them. <span class="ital">Therefore will he teach sinners the way — </span>Being such a one, he will not be wanting to such poor sinners as I am, but will guide them by his Word and Spirit, and gracious providence, into the way of life and peace. By <span class="ital">sinners </span>he doth not intend all that are so; for such as are obstinate, proud, and scornful, God hath declared he will not teach or direct, but will leave them to the errors and lusts of their own hearts; but only such as, being truly sensible of their sins, do humbly and earnestly seek of God grace and mercy; or such as are <span class="ital">meek, </span>as the next verse explains it, that is, humble and gentle, and who meekly submit themselves to God’s hand, and are willing and desirous to be directed and governed by him. These <span class="ital">he will guide in judgment — </span>That is, in the paths of judgment, in the right way in which they ought to walk; and by the rule of his word, which is often called his <span class="ital">judgment: </span>or, <span class="ital">with judgment, </span>that is, with a wise and provident care and a due regard to all their circumstances.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="9"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-9.htm">Psalm 25:9</a></div><div class="verse">The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.</div><A name="10"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-10.htm">Psalm 25:10</a></div><div class="verse">All the paths of the LORD <i>are</i> mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-10.htm" title="All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.">Psalm 25:10</a></span>. <span class="ital">All the paths of the Lord — </span>All the dealings of God with them, yea, even those that are afflictive and grievous to the flesh; <span class="ital">are mercy and truth — </span>Are in kindness and faithfulness, as being very necessary for them, and tending to their great advantage; <span class="ital">unto such as keep his covenant — </span>The conditions required of them by his covenant; or, as it follows, his <span class="ital">testimonies, </span>or precepts, which are the testimonies or witnesses of God’s will, and of man’s duty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="11"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-11.htm">Psalm 25:11</a></div><div class="verse">For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it <i>is</i> great.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-11.htm" title="For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.">Psalm 25:11</a></span>. <span class="ital">For thy name’s sake — </span>That is, for the honour of thy goodness and truth, which is concerned herein, <span class="ital">pardon mine iniquity, for it is great</span> — And therefore only such a merciful and gracious God as thou art can pardon it, and nothing but thy own name can move thee to do it; and the pardoning of it will well become so great and good a God, and will tend much to the illustration of thy glory, as the greatness and desperateness of the disease advanceth the honour and praise of the physician that cures it; or this may be urged, not as an argument to move God, but as the reason that moved him to pray so earnestly for pardon: as if he had said, It is great, and therefore I am undone, for ever undone, if infinite mercy do not interpose to forgive it. Or, I see it to be great, I acknowledge it to be so, and am penitent for it, and therefore, according to thy promises to the penitent, forgive it. Or, <span class="ital">though </span>it be great, as the particle <span class="greekheb">כי</span>, <span class="ital">chi, </span>is often rendered. Possibly he speaks of his sin against Uriah and Bathsheba.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="12"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-12.htm">Psalm 25:12</a></div><div class="verse">What man <i>is</i> he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way <i>that</i> he shall choose.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-12.htm" title="What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose....">Psalm 25:12-13</a></span>. <span class="ital">What man is he that feareth the Lord — </span>Whosoever he be, whether Jew or Gentile, whether comparatively innocent or a great sinner, which is my case: <span class="ital">him shall he teach in the way he shall choose — </span>The way which God chooseth, or appointeth and approveth, or which the good man <span class="ital">should, </span>or <span class="ital">ought </span>to choose. <span class="ital">His soul shall dwell at ease — </span>Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">בשׂוב תלין</span>, <span class="ital">betob talin, shall lodge, </span>that is, continue <span class="ital">in good, </span>in the possession and enjoyment of the true good. <span class="ital">His seed shall inherit the earth</span> — Or, <span class="ital">the land, </span>namely, Canaan; which was promised and given as an earnest of the whole covenant of grace and all its promises.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="13"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-13.htm">Psalm 25:13</a></div><div class="verse">His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.</div><A name="14"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-14.htm">Psalm 25:14</a></div><div class="verse">The secret of the LORD <i>is</i> with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-14.htm" title="The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.">Psalm 25:14</a></span>. <span class="ital">The secret of the Lord — </span>Hebrew, <span class="greekheb">סוד</span>, <span class="ital">sod, </span>his <span class="ital">fixed counsel, </span>or <span class="ital">design, is with them that fear him — </span>To direct and guide them in the right way; to show them their duty in all conditions, and the way to eternal salvation. “The greatest happiness of man in this world,” says Dr. Horne, “is to know the fixed and determinate counsels of God concerning the human race, and to understand the covenant of redemption.” This, though it was revealed, yet might be called <span class="ital">a secret, </span>because of the many and deep mysteries in it, and because it is said to be hid from many of them to whom it was revealed, <a href="/matthew/11-25.htm" title="At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.">Matthew 11:25</a>; <a href="/context/2_corinthians/3-13.htm" title="And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:...">2 Corinthians 3:13-15</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/4-3.htm" title="But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:">2 Corinthians 4:3</a>; and it cannot be understood to any purpose without the illumination of God’s Holy Spirit. Or, <span class="ital">the secret of the Lord </span>means his <span class="ital">love </span>and <span class="ital">favour, </span>which is called his <span class="ital">secret, </span><a href="/job/29-4.htm" title="As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was on my tabernacle;">Job 29:4</a>; <a href="/proverbs/3-32.htm" title="For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.">Proverbs 3:32</a>; and because it is known to none but him that enjoyeth it. <span class="ital">And he will show — </span>Hebrew, <span class="ital">he will make them to know his covenant — </span>That is, he will make them clearly to understand both its duties and its blessings, neither of which ungodly men rightly understand; he will make them to know it by experience, or he will fulfil and make it good to them and in them; as, on the contrary, God threatens to make ungodly men to <span class="ital">know his breach of promise, </span><a href="/numbers/14-34.htm" title="After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.">Numbers 14:34</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="15"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-15.htm">Psalm 25:15</a></div><div class="verse">Mine eyes <i>are</i> ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-15.htm" title="My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net....">Psalm 25:15-16</a></span>. <span class="ital">Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord — </span>My trust is in him, and my expectation of relief is from him only. <span class="ital">He shall pluck my feet out of the net — </span>He will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribulations. <span class="ital">Turn thee unto me — </span>Turn thy face and favour to me; <span class="ital">for I am desolate and afflicted </span>— Destitute of all other hopes and succours, persecuted by mine enemies, and forsaken by most of my friends. Such was his condition during Absalom’s rebellion. “They who are ever looking unto the Lord will be heard when they beseech him to turn his face, and to look upon them.” — Horne.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="16"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-16.htm">Psalm 25:16</a></div><div class="verse">Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I <i>am</i> desolate and afflicted.</div><A name="17"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-17.htm">Psalm 25:17</a></div><div class="verse">The troubles of my heart are enlarged: <i>O</i> bring thou me out of my distresses.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/context/psalms/25-17.htm" title="The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses....">Psalm 25:17-20</a></span>. <span class="ital">The troubles of my heart are enlarged — </span>My outward troubles are accompanied with grievous distresses of my mind and heart for my sins, which have procured them, and for thy great displeasure manifested in them. <span class="ital">Look upon mine affliction — </span>With compassion, as <a href="/context/exodus/3-7.htm" title="And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;...">Exodus 3:7-8</a>; <a href="/psalms/31-7.htm" title="I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;">Psalm 31:7</a>; <a href="/psalms/106-44.htm" title="Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:">Psalm 106:44</a>. <span class="ital">And forgive all my sins — </span>The procuring and continuing causes of my trouble. “David joins this petition to the foregoing one, because he considered, whatever afflictions and crosses were brought upon him, how just soever they might be, with respect to his enemies, who were the apparent causes of them; yet that, according to God’s appointment, or permission, they might be the effects and punishment of his sins.” — Dodd. <span class="ital">O keep my soul — </span>Myself, or my life, as that word is commonly taken: for his soul was out of his enemies’ reach, who could only kill his body, <a href="/luke/12-4.htm" title="And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.">Luke 12:4</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="18"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-18.htm">Psalm 25:18</a></div><div class="verse">Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.</div><A name="19"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-19.htm">Psalm 25:19</a></div><div class="verse">Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.</div><A name="20"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-20.htm">Psalm 25:20</a></div><div class="verse">O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.</div><A name="21"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-21.htm">Psalm 25:21</a></div><div class="verse">Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-21.htm" title="Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.">Psalm 25:21</a></span>. <span class="ital">Let integrity and uprightness preserve me — </span>Though I have greatly offended thee, yet remember that I have dealt honestly and sincerely with mine eugenics, while they have dealt falsely and injuriously with me; and therefore judge between them and me, and deal with me according to the righteousness of my cause and conduct toward them. David’s praying that integrity might preserve him, “intimates,” says Henry, “that he did not expect to be safe any longer than he continued in his integrity and uprightness; and that while he did continue in it, he did not doubt of being safe. Sincerity,” adds he, “will be our best security in the worst of times. Integrity and uprightness will be a man’s preservation more than the wealth and honour of the world can be; this will preserve us to the heavenly kingdom. We should therefore pray to God to preserve us in our integrity, and then be assured that that will preserve us.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><A name="22"></a> <div class="versenum"><a href="/psalms/25-22.htm">Psalm 25:22</a></div><div class="verse">Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.</div><span class="bld"><a href="/psalms/25-22.htm" title="Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.">Psalm 25:22</a></span>. <span class="ital">Redeem Israel, O God, </span>&c. — “Have mercy, not upon me only, but upon the whole nation, who are miserably distracted by their divisions, and restore them to peace and quietness.” — Bishop Patrick, who supposes that the Psalm was written during the troubles occasioned by Absalom. David was now in trouble himself, in great trouble, (<a href="/psalms/25-17.htm" title="The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring you me out of my distresses.">Psalm 25:17</a>,) and very earnest he was in praying to God for deliverance; yet he forgets not the distresses of God’s church. Good men have little comfort in their own safety while the church is in distress and danger. This prayer is a three-fold prophecy; 1st, That God would at length give David rest, and therewith give Israel rest from all their enemies round about. 2d, That he would send the Messiah, in due time, to <span class="ital">redeem Israel from all his iniquities, </span>Psalms 130. <span class="ital">ult., </span>and so to redeem them from their troubles; and, 3d, Of the happiness of the future state. 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