Verse Psalms 25:6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindness] The word רחמים rachamim, means the commiseration that a man feels in his bowels at the sight of distress. The second word, חסדים chasadim, signifies those kindnesses which are the offspring of a profusion of benevolence.
They have been ever of old.] Thou wert ever wont to display thyself as a ceaseless fountain of good to all thy creatures.
REMEMBER, O LORD - That is, In thy future treatment of me, bring to remembrance what thou hast done, and treat me in the same manner still. The language is that of one who felt that God had always bee...
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...
REMEMBER. Note the threefold object of this remembrance in verses: Psalms 25:6; Psalms 25:7. MERCIES. compassions. Hebrew. _raham._ Not the same word as in verses: Psalms 25:7;...
Petition for protection, guidance, and pardon....
An appeal to Jehovah's unchangeableness (Malachi 3:6). The love of ancient days cannot be exhausted (Jeremiah 2:2; Jeremiah 31:3). _For they_have been _ever of old_ Lit., _for they_have been _from eve...
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...
_REMEMBER, O LORD, THY TENDER MERCIES AND THY LOVINGKINDNESSES; FOR THEY HAVE BEEN EVER OF OLD._ Thy tender mercies - Hebrew, 'thy bowels' (Colossians 3:12). AND THY LOVING-KINDNESSES. God cannot re...
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...
EVER OF OLD. — Better, _from ancient times _...
זְכֹר ־רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה וַ חֲסָדֶ֑יךָ כִּ֖י...
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...
Innocent. Hebrew, "in innocence," avoiding every thing which may defile and render me unfit to approach thy holy altar. Many things (Calmet) of themselves innocent, (Haydock) excluded the priests of t...
These are all so many witnesses to the same blessed truth; and they all speak to the evidence of human wants, and divine faithfulness....
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
6._Remember, O Jehovah; _From this it appears, in the first place, that David was grievously afflicted and tried, so much so that he had lost all sense of God’s mercy: for he calls upon God to remembe...
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...
REMEMBER, O LORD, THY TENDER MERCIES AND THY LOVING KINDNESSES,.... Not the providential mercy and kindness of God, in the care of him in his mother's womb, at the time of his birth, in his nurture an...
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old. Ver. 6. _Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies_] Heb. thy bowels, which thou mayest seem to have lost,...
_Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies_ O consider thy own merciful nature, and thy former manifold favours vouchsafed to me, and to other miserable sinners, and act like thyself. _For they have been e...
A PRAYER FOR MERCIFUL PROTECTION AND GUIDANCE. A psalm of David....
Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindnesses, the many instances in which He had shown His kindness and mercy; FOR THEY HAVE BEEN EVER OF OLD, they are the attributes of the eternal...
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...
O consider thy own merciful nature, and thy former manifold favours vouchsafed to me, and to other miserable sinners, and do like thyself. Thou hast been gracious to such as I am from the beginning of...
Psalms 25:6 Remember H2142 (H8798) LORD H3068 mercies H7356 lovingkindnesses H2617 old H5769 Remember -...
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...
_Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies._ THINGS TO REMEMBER AND TO FORGET It is only by a figure of speech that we can speak of God as remembering and forgetting. It is an accommodation to our human w...
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 25:6 The terms MERCY, STEADFAST LOVE, SINS, and TRANSGRESSIONS remind one of...
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 3:17; 2 Chronicles 6:42; 2 Corinthians 1:3; Colossians 3:12;...