Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 25:2
Ashamed, i.e. disappointed of my hope, which will be reproachful to me, not without reflection upon thee, of whose power and faithfulness I have made my boast.
Ashamed, i.e. disappointed of my hope, which will be reproachful to me, not without reflection upon thee, of whose power and faithfulness I have made my boast.
Verse Psalms 25:2. _I TRUST IN THEE_] I depend upon thy infinite goodness and mercy for my support and salvation. _LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED_] Hide my iniquity, and forgive my guilt....
O MY GOD, I TRUST IN THEE - This is the first thought - a feeling that he had true confidence in God, and that in all the duties of life, in all his trials, and in all his hopes for the future, his re...
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...
I TRUST. have confided. Hebrew. _batah_. See App-69. Not the same word as in Psalms 25:20. NOT. Hebrew. _'al_ (= Greek. _me),_ subjective. Compare "none", Psalms 25:3. ASHAMED. put to shame. Figure o...
Petition for protection, guidance, and pardon....
This verse should begin with the letter _Beth_in the word for _in thee_. It has been suggested that the first word _O my God_was disregarded in the alphabetic arrangement; but it is more probable that...
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 MY GOD, I TRUST IN THEE: LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED, LET NOT MINE ENEMIES TRIUMPH OVER ME._ I trust in thee - and in none besides; answering to "I lift up my soul unto thee" (Psalms 25:1). LET ME NOT...
I TRUST IN THEE] RV 'in thee have I trusted.'...
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...
אֱֽלֹהַ֗י בְּךָ֣ בָ֭טַחְתִּי אַל ־אֵבֹ֑ושָׁה אַל...
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...
O my God, I (b) trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. (b) That you will take away my enemies, which are your rods....
_Burn, like gold in the furnace. (Berthier) --- Purify all my affections and thoughts with the fire of divine love. (St. Augustine; St. Jerome) --- Make my dispositions known to the world. I have done...
These are blessed promises, and blessed encouragements, to those which wait upon the Lord. Isaiah 65:24....
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
2._O my God! I have put my trust in thee. _By this verse we learn, (what will appear more clearly afterwards,) that David had to do with men; but as he was persuaded that his enemies were, as it were,...
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 MY GOD, I TRUST IN THEE,.... He claims his interest in God, and expresses his faith and confidence in him, in the midst of all his troubles; Psalms 7:1; LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED; meaning of his trust...
O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Ver. 2. _O my God, I trust in thee_] I pray in faith, which is as the fire, and my prayer as the flame that ari...
_Unto thee do I lift up my soul_ That is, I direct my prayers to thee with hope of a gracious answer. _Let me not be ashamed_ That is, disappointed of my hope, which will be reproachful to me, and not...
0 my God, I trust in Thee, abiding firmly in this confidence; LET ME NOT BE ASHAMED, become an object of mockery; LET NOT MINE ENEMIES TRIUMPH OVER ME, with exulting jeers over the foolishness of his...
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
1-7 In worshipping God, we must lift up our souls to him. It is certain that none who, by a believing attendance, wait on God, and, by a believing hope, wait for him, shall be ashamed of it. The most...
Psalms 25:2 God H430 trust H982 (H8804) ashamed H954 (H8799) enemies H341 (H8802) triumph H5970 ...
THE PSALMIST'S INITIAL PLEA AND EXPRESSION OF CONFIDENCE THAT YHWH WILL HEAR HIM (PSALMS 25:1). Psalms 25:1 A ‘To you, O YHWH, Do I lift up my soul, O my God.' (The movement of ‘O my God' to this f...
A PRAYER FOR PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE FROM YHWH (PSALMS 25:1). In Psalms 25:1 the Psalmist lifts up His soul to God, and prays that his cause might be upheld, and then in Psalms 25:3 he asserts his con...
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...
_Let me not be put to shame._ DELIVERANCE AND GUIDANCE Trust that was not vindicated by deliverance would cover the face with confusion. “Hopes that breed not shame” are the treasure of him whose hop...
_Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul._ DAVID DEPRESSED I. David was at this time in a state of great trouble. This is the children’s path; it is the path most of God’s family walk in. It is not a...
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 25:2 These worshipers, who see themselves as being among the faithful (I TRUST... WAIT FOR YOU), expect that their hope in the Lord has a worthy basis, so that they will NOT BE PU...
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...
1 Peter 2:6; Isaiah 26:3; Isaiah 28:16; Isaiah 36:14; Isaiah 37:10;...
Ashamed — Disappointed of my hope....