Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 25:22
Israel — If thou wilt not help me, yet spare thy people who suffer for my sake, and in my sufferings.
Israel — If thou wilt not help me, yet spare thy people who suffer for my sake, and in my sufferings.
Verse Psalms 25:22. _REDEEMS ISRAEL, O GOD_] The people are prayed for in the preceding verses as if _one person_; now he includes the whole, lest his own personal necessities should narrow his heart,...
REDEEM ISRAEL - Redeem or save thy people - the word “Israel” here being used, as elsewhere, to denote the people of God. OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES - Save thy people from persecution, and from trial of...
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...
REDEEM. Deliver: i.e. redeem _by putting forth power._ Hebrew. _padah._ See notes on Exodus 13:13....
A concluding prayer for the nation. The alphabet has been completed, and this is a supplementary distich beginning with _Pç_, which has already been represented in Psalms 25:16; Psalms 34 has the same...
REDEEM ISRAEL, O GOD, &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;" for it is supposed 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...
_REDEEM ISRAEL, O GOD, OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES._ Redeem Israel, O God - concluding summary. David's cause was the cause of "Israel," and is the cause of the whole Church. As her representative, he gi...
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...
This verse, beginning with _Pe,_ was apparently a later addition. Not only is it an isolated line, interfering with the alphabetical arrangement, but it also differs from the rest of the psalm by empl...
פְּדֵ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים אֶת ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִ֝ כֹּ֗ל...
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...
PSALM XV. (JUDICA ME DOMINE.) David's prayer to God in his distress, to be delivered, that he may come to worship him in his tabernacle....
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...
REFLECTIONS READER, let us never lose sight of Christ, as Jesus, the Christ of God and our appointed High Priest; in all the fervent prayers we meet with in the written word: for as we cannot pray pr...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
22._Do thou, O God! redeem Israel. _By this conclusion David shows of what character the enemies were of whom he complained. From this it would appear that they were domestic enemies, who, like some d...
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...
REDEEM ISRAEL, O GOD, OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES. David was not only concerned for himself, but for the whole nation of Israel, which was involved in trouble through this unnatural rebellion of his son,...
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Ver. 22. _Redeem Israel, &c._] _In vita vel post mortem meam,_ Either while I live, or after my death (R. David). This is every good man's care and pray...
_Redeem Israel, O God_, &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 sup...
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
Redeem Israel, O God, not only David, but the entire congregation of believers of all times and in all circumstances, OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES. May God deliver the entire Christian Church from all evil...
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...
If thou wilt not pity and help me, yet spare thy people. who suffer for my sake, and in my sufferings....
Psalms 25:22 Redeem H6299 (H8798) Israel H3478 God H430 troubles H6869 Psalms 14:7,...
P ‘Redeem, O God, Israel, out all of his troubles.' The Psalmists final plea is that God will redeem (deliver at a cost) Israel from all its troubles. He does not want to be thought of as just concer...
REDEEM (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
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 25:22 REDEEM generally means rescue and protect, especially in relation to ISRAEL (see Psalms 44:26;...
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...
Psalms 122:6; Psalms 130:8; Psalms 14:7; Psalms 51:18; Psalms 51:19