Psalms 25:4
What meaning of the psalms 25:4 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 25:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths."
What does Psalms 25:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths."
Verse Psalms 25:4. _SHOW ME THY WAYS_] The psalmist wishes to _know_ God's _way_, to be taught his _path_, and to be led into his _truth_. He cannot discern this _way_ unless God _show_ it; he cannot...
SHOW ME THY WAYS, O LORD - The “ways” of God are His methods of administering the affairs of the world; His dispensations; the rules which He has prescribed for Himself in the execution of His plans;...
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...
Petition for protection, guidance, and pardon....
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...
_SHEW ME THY WAYS, O LORD; TEACH ME THY PATHS._ Show me thy ways - namely, the ways of "salvation" from all dangers and temptations. David has in mind the prayer of Moses (Exodus 33:13). TEACH ME -...
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...
דְּרָכֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה הֹודִיעֵ֑נִי אֹ֖רְחֹותֶ֣יךָ לַמְּדֵֽנִי׃...
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...
(c) Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. (c) Retain me in the faith of your promise that I swore not on any side....
_Council. Hebrew, "men." --- Doers. Hebrew, "men of darkness;" which means the wicked, (Berthier) who love darkness. Protestants, "dissemblers." (Haydock) --- The sacred minister ought to avoid evil c...
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_)....
4._O Jehovah! make me to know thy ways. _By _the ways of the Lord, _David sometimes means, as we have seen in another place, the happy and prosperous issue of affairs, but more frequently he uses this...
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...
SHOW ME THY WAYS, O LORD,.... Either those which the Lord himself took and walked in; as those of creation and providence, in which he has displayed his power, wisdom, and goodness; and which are desi...
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Ver. 4. _Show me thy ways, O Lord_] _q.d._ However other men walk towards me, yet my desire is to keep touch with thee; for which purpose I humbly beg th...
_Show me thy ways, O Lord_ That is, the way or thy precepts, what I ought to do in my circumstances and difficulties; by what methods I may obtain thy favour and help. Whatsoever thou doest with me, a...
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...
THY WAYS, i.e. the way of thy precepts, which I ought to do in my circumstances and difficulties; by what methods I may obtain thy favour and help. Whatsoever thou dost with me as to other things, gra...
Psalms 25:4 Show H3045 (H8685) ways H1870 LORD H3068 Teach H3925 (H8761) paths H734 Psalms 5:1, Psalms 5:8, Psalms 27:11, Psalms 86:11, Psalms 119:27,...
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;...
_Shew me Thy ways, O Lord; and teach me Thy paths._ DIVINE AUTHORITY UPON EARTH All right-minded men will agree with Matthew Arnold’s famous saying, that “Conduct is three-fourths of human life.” It...
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...
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...
Exodus 33:13; Isaiah 2:3; Jeremiah 6:16; Proverbs 8:20; Psalms 119:27; Psalms 143:8; Psalms 27:11; Psalms 5:1; Psalms 5:8; Psalms 86:11...
Teach — Teach me my duty, and cause me to keep close to it, notwithstanding all temptations....