SH ‘Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.
Do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you (put my trust in you).'
So he asks that his inner heart might be kept true, and that he might experience deliverance. For to be put to shame would reflect on the One in Whom he takes refuge, the One in Whom he trusts.
Verse Psalms 25:20. _O KEEP MY SOUL_] Save me from sin, and keep me alive. _LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED_] He ends as he began; see Psalms 25:2: "Let me not be confounded, for I put my trust in thee....
O KEEP MY SOUL - “My life;” or, keep “me.” The allusion is to all the perils which encompassed him, whether arising from his foes or his sins; and the prayer is, that the divine protection might be co...
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 indi...
XXV. An acrostic poem composed of religious maxims and prayers which have little or no connexion with each other. The text is imperfect, for in Psalms 25:18 f. the letter Q is omitted and R is repeate...
DELIVER. rescue. PUT MY TRUST. flee for refuge. Hebrew. _hasah._ See App-69. Not the same word as in Psalms 25:1....
Renewed prayer, for deliverance and preservation....
_O keep_&c. Preserve my soul. Cp. Psalms 16:1; Psalms 86:2. _for I put my trust in thee_ For I have taken refuge in thee. Cp. Psalms 7:1; Psalms 2:12
PSALMS 25 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Alphabetical Psalm of Supplication. ANALYSIS Seven lines of Direct Address to Jehovah, Psalms 25:1-7; three lines in Praise of Jehovah, Psalms 25:8-10; one line of Di...
_O KEEP MY SOUL, AND DELIVER ME: LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED; FOR I PUT MY TRUST IN THEE._ O keep my soul - (Psalms 22:20.) Another effectual plea, the preciousness in God's sight of his "soul" which is en...
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. sugge...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
שָׁמְרָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי וְ הַצִּילֵ֑נִי אַל ־אֵ֝בֹ֗ושׁ...
Psalms 25:1 THE recurrence of the phrase "lift up the soul" may have determined the place of this psalm next to Psalms 24:1. It is acrostic, but with irregularities. As the text now stands, the second...
A PRAYER FOR PARDON AND PROTECTION Psalms 25:1 This is an acrostic or alphabetical psalm. The verses begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, to aid the memory. So also in Psalms 9:1...
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 cont...
I do not interrupt the reading through the whole of these verses; their plain and obvious meaning they carry along with them. They bear a decided testimony to divine faithfulness, and man's necessitie...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
Christ has been introduced, not indeed yet in glory, but associating Himself with the remnant, and suffering even unto death for them. Hence their whole case can be prophetically gone into. And here f...
O KEEP MY SOUL,.... Or "life" n, which was in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held him in it, to preserve it. God is the keeper of ha...
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Ver. 20. _O keep my soul_] The repetition of the self same petition argueth earnestness, and is not always battology...
_The troubles of my heart are enlarged_ 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 manifeste...
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
O keep my soul and deliver me, this being an easy matter for the almighty power of Jehovah; LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED, FOR I PUT MY TRUST IN THEE, and therefore any mockery on the part of the enemies woul...
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...
MY SOUL, i.e. 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_, LUKE 12:4....
Psalms 25:20 Keep H8104 (H8798) soul H5315 deliver H5337 (H8685) ashamed H954 (H8799) trust H2620 ...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
Psalms 25:1. _Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul._ It is down; and I would fain lift it up; yet I am powerless to do so if I am left to myself. When the soul cleaves to the earth, who but God ca...
CONTENTS: Prayer for guidance, forgiveness, mercy and deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: It is our duty and privilege to trustingly wait upon the Lord in adoration, supplication and se...
Psalms 25:1. _To thee, oh Lord, do I lift up my soul_ anew, now in this time of war and danger. Psalms 25:5. _On thee do I wait all the day._ David speaks of his blessing the Lord seven times a day; p...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 25:1. In this lament, individual members of the worshiping assembly ask God for help in their various troubles. While the psalm expresses faith in God’s kindness, it does no...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 25:16 The psalmist prays for deliverance from the AFFLICTION, TROUBLE, and FOES that threaten (vv....
INTRODUCTION “David is pictured in this psalm as in a faithful miniature. His holy trust, his many conflicts, his great transgression, his bitter repentance, and his deep distresses are all here; so t...
EXPOSITION THIS is the second of the "alphabetic psalms." It is not so irregular as Psalms 9:1; but still is defective in some respects, the letters _beth _and _vav _being omitted in their proper plac...
Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which tra...
Acts 7:59; Joel 2:26; Joel 2:27; Luke 23:46; Psalms 121:7;...
Soul — My life....