Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 25:5
Lead me in thy truth. — Better, make me walk in — i.e., make me to have an actual experience of the Divine faithfulness in my passage through life.
Lead me in thy truth. — Better, make me walk in — i.e., make me to have an actual experience of the Divine faithfulness in my passage through life.
Verse Psalms 25:5. _ON THEE DO I WAIT_] This is the line in which ו _vau_, the sixth letter in the order of the alphabet, is lost; for the line begins with א _aleph_, אותך othecha, "on thee." But fou...
LEAD ME IN THY TRUTH - In the way which thou regardest as truth, or which thou seest to be true. Truth is eternal and unchanging. What God sees and regards as truth is true, because he sees things as...
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...
ON. For. Hebrew. _ki._ Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read _Veki,_ "and for", thus restoring the Vav (consonant), which otherwise is wanting....
Petition for protection, guidance, and pardon....
_Lead me_&c. R.V., Guide me in thy truth: not, as at first sight would seem to be the meaning, into a fuller knowledge of revealed truth. Jehovah's truth, so often coupled with His lovingkindness, mea...
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...
_LEAD ME IN THY TRUTH, AND TEACH ME: FOR THOU ART THE GOD OF MY SALVATION; ON THEE DO I WAIT ALL THE DAY._ Lead me in thy truth - Lead me, so as that I may experience thy faithfulness to thy promises...
25:5 day. (d-26) Or 'every day.'...
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...
LEAD (RV 'guide ') ME IN THY TRUTH] i.e. 'in thy faithfulness.' 6, 7. Note the threefold use of REMEMBER. God's remembrance is sought, _not_ for the Psalmist's sins, but for His own changeless charac...
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...
הַדְרִ֘יכֵ֤נִי בַ אֲמִתֶּ֨ךָ ׀ וְֽ לַמְּדֵ֗נִי כִּֽי...
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...
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait (d) all the day. (d) Constantly and against all temptations....
There is a beautiful order in these expressions; first to be shown, then to be taught, and then to be led, in the path of grace. How, blessed it is to have the Spirit to teach, the Spirit to lead, and...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
At the same time, we ought to observe the argument which David here employs to enforce his prayer. By calling God _the God of his salvation, _he does so in order to strengthen his hope in God for the...
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...
LEAD ME IN THY TRUTH, AND TEACH ME,.... Meaning the word of God, the Scriptures of truth; and the Gospel, which is the word of truth, and truth itself, John 17:17; and the sense is, either that God wo...
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Ver. 5. _Lead me in thy truth, and teach me_] _i.e._ _Assidue doce et urge._ David was a gre...
_Lead me in thy truth_ In the true and right way prescribed in thy word, which is often called _truth;_ or, _through_, or, _because of, thy truth;_ because thou art faithful, lead and guide me as thou...
Lead me in Thy truth, that of His eternal Word, AND TEACH ME, that being the only true source of knowledge; FOR THOU ART THE GOD OF MY SALVATION, the true and only Deliverer from every form of danger,...
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...
IN THY TRUTH, i.e. in the true and right way prescribed in thy word, which is oft called truth, as PSALMS 119:30 1 THESSALONIANS 8:45,46 1 THESSALONIANS 16:13, &c. Or, by
Psalms 25:5 Lead H1869 (H8685) truth H571 teach H3925 (H8761) God H430 salvation H3468 wait H6960 ...
A PLEA FOR GUIDANCE FOR HIMSELF, AND THAT YHWH WILL REMEMBER HIS COVENANT PROMISES AND COVENANT LOVE, AND THAT HE WILL NOT REMEMBER HIS SINS (4-7). This is the first section in a three stage pattern,...
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...
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...
_Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me._ GUIDING AND TEACHING A short but expressive prayer. All need it. We need it when we are surrounded with gloom, when we are tempted, and when we find bur path ve...
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 25:4 Those who trust in the Lord seek his guidance. They want to learn what manner of life (WAYS, PATHS) pleases him and how his commands apply to their specific circumstances....
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 John 2:27; Ephesians 4:20; Ephesians 4:21; Isaiah 30:18; Isaiah 35:8