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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/psalms/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="psalmhdg">Psalm 25 <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.">a</a></sup></span></p> <p class="hebrewtitle">Of David.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In you, <span class="name">Lord</span> my God,</p><p class="line2">I put my trust.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I trust in you;</p><p class="line2">do not let me be put to shame,</p><p class="line2">nor let my enemies triumph over me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>No one who hopes in you</p><p class="line2">will ever be put to shame,</p><p class="line1">but shame will come on those</p><p class="line2">who are treacherous without cause.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Show me your ways, <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">teach me your paths.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Guide me in your truth and teach me,</p><p class="line2">for you are God my Savior,</p><p class="line2">and my hope is in you all day long.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Remember, <span class="name">Lord</span>, your great mercy and love,</p><p class="line2">for they are from of old.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Do not remember the sins of my youth</p><p class="line2">and my rebellious ways;</p><p class="line1">according to your love remember me,</p><p class="line2">for you, <span class="name">Lord</span>, are good.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Good and upright is the <span class="name">Lord</span>;</p><p class="line2">therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He guides the humble in what is right</p><p class="line2">and teaches them his way.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>All the ways of the <span class="name">Lord</span> are loving and faithful</p><p class="line2">toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the sake of your name, <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">forgive my iniquity, though it is great.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who, then, are those who fear the <span class="name">Lord</span>?</p><p class="line2">He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or ways he chooses">b</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They will spend their days in prosperity,</p><p class="line2">and their descendants will inherit the land.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> confides in those who fear him;</p><p class="line2">he makes his covenant known to them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My eyes are ever on the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">for only he will release my feet from the snare.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Turn to me and be gracious to me,</p><p class="line2">for I am lonely and afflicted.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Relieve the troubles of my heart</p><p class="line2">and free me from my anguish.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Look on my affliction and my distress</p><p class="line2">and take away all my sins.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>See how numerous are my enemies</p><p class="line2">and how fiercely they hate me!</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Guard my life and rescue me;</p><p class="line2">do not let me be put to shame,</p><p class="line2">for I take refuge in you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>May integrity and uprightness protect me,</p><p class="line2">because my hope, <span class="name">Lord</span>, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew does not have LORD.">c</a></sup></span> is in you.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Deliver Israel, O God,</p><p class="line2">from all their troubles!</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>ways he chooses</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Septuagint; Hebrew does not have <i><span class="name">Lord</span></i>.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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