Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Psalms 25:15
ever toward. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6), "ever [looking] toward". It is salutary suspense which keeps us thus looking.
ever toward. Supply Figure of speech Ellipsis (App-6), "ever [looking] toward". It is salutary suspense which keeps us thus looking.
Verse Psalms 25:15. _MINE EYES_ ARE _EVER TOWARD THE LORD_] All my expectation is from him alone. If I get at any time entangled, he will pluck my feet out of the net....
MINE EYES ARE EVER TOWARD THE LORD - This is an indication of the habitual state of mind of the psalmist. He had said that God would lead and guide those who were meek, gentle, teachable, humble; and...
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...
_Mine eyes_&c. The attitude of expectant prayer. Cp. Psalms 141:8; Psalms 123:1 ff.; 1 Thessalonians 5:17. Prof. Cheyne compares the proper name Elyôçnai or Elyehôçnai, -Unto Yahve are mine eyes,...
Renewed prayer, for deliverance and preservation....
FOR HE SHALL PLUCK MY FEET, &C.— As the Hebrew grammarians found or made no rule to distinguish the optative, potential, and subjunctive moods, the sense of which is very necessary to be frequently ex...
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...
_MINE EYES ARE EVER TOWARD THE LORD; FOR HE SHALL PLUCK MY FEET OUT OF THE NET._ Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord - resuming the plea in Psalms 25:1 (cf. Psalms 123:1). FEET OUT OF THE NET - laid...
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...
THE NET] the entanglements and perplexities of trouble and sin. 21. There is a seeming inconsistency between the plea of INTEGRITY AND UPRIGHTNESS and the confessions of sin in Psalms 25:7; Psalms 25:...
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...
עֵינַ֣י תָּ֭מִיד אֶל ־יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֤י הֽוּא ־יֹ
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_)....
15._Mine eyes are continually towards Jehovah. _David here speaks of his own faith, and of its perseverance, not in the way of boasting, but to encourage himself in the hope of obtaining his requests,...
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...
MINE EYES [ARE] EVER TOWARDS THE LORD,.... Not only as the God of nature and providence, for his daily support and supply, in which sense the eyes of all creatures wait upon him; but as his covenant G...
Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Ver. 15. _Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord_] I look him full in the face, and confidently expect deliverance. This h...
_Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord_ My trust is in him, and my expectation of relief is from him only. _He shall pluck my feet out of the net_ He will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribula...
Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, fixed upon Him in hope and trust; FOR HE SHALL PLUCK MY FEET OUT OF THE NET, delivering him from all the dangers arising from the craft and guile of the enemies....
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
PLUCK: _ Heb._ bring forth...
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...
i.e. My trust is in him, my expectation of relief is from him only, and he will deliver me out of all my temptations and tribulations....
Psalms 25:15 eyes H5869 ever H8548 LORD H3068 pluck H3318 (H8686) feet H7272 net H7568 Mine -...
THE ONE WHO FEARS YHWH WILL RECEIVE HIS INSTRUCTION, WILL ENJOY SECURITY AND PROSPERITY, WILL BE AWARE THAT HE IS ONE OF HIS COVENANT PEOPLE, AND WILL BE KEPT FROM FALLING (PSALMS 25:12). We now come...
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 25:12 Verse Psalms 25:12 focuses on the particular person (THE MAN) who fears the LORD
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...
2 Timothy 2:25; 2 Timothy 2:26; Jeremiah 5:26; Psalms 124:7; Psa
Pluck — He will deliver me out of all my troubles....