--- title: "Psalms 25 - Study King James Bible with trapps complete commentary" description: "Read Psalms 25 with trapps complete commentary commentary. 1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/trapps-complete-commentary/psalms/25" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/25)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/25)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/25) Audio 1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. 4 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou *art* the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 6 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they *have been* ever of old.* 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD. 8 Good and upright *is* the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. 10 All the paths of the LORD *are* mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it *is* great. 12 What man *is* he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way *that* he shall choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.* 14 The secret of the LORD *is* with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.* 15 Mine eyes *are* ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.* 16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I *am* desolate and afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: *O* bring thou me out of my distresses. 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.* 20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. 22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. [Psalms 24](/study/psalms/24) [Psalms 26](/study/psalms/26) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 25:1](/kjv/psalms/25/1) « [A Psalm] of David. » Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul. **A Psalm of David** ] An excellent psalm; the second of those seven called by the ancients penitential; and such as may well serve us for a pattern of our daily prayers; as wherein David beggeth three things (answerable to those two last petitions in the Lord’s prayer), first, pardon of sin; secondly, guidance of God’s good Spirit; thirdly, defence against his enemies (Beza). It appeareth that this psalm was made by David when he was well in years, [Psalms 25:7](/kjv/psalms/25/7) , after his sin in the matter of Uriah (that great iniquity, as he calleth it, [Psalms 25:11](/kjv/psalms/25/11) , saith Vatablus), and some gather, from [Psalms 25:19](/kjv/psalms/25/19) , that he framed this psalm when Absalom was up in arms against him, [Psalms 25:19](/kjv/psalms/25/19) ([compared with Psa 3:1](/kjv/compared-with-psa/3/1) ). See also [Psalms 25:15](/kjv/psalms/25/15) ; [Psalms 25:22](/kjv/psalms/25/22) . It may seem therefore that when he came to Mahanaim, [2 Samuel 17:24](/kjv/2-samuel/17/24) ; [2 Samuel 17:27](/kjv/2-samuel/17/27) (where God showed him marvellous lovingkindness in a strong city, [Psalms 31:21](/kjv/psalms/31/21) , and wherehence he was at the people’s request to help them, or to cause them to be helped, viz. by his hearty prayers for God’s assistance,[2Sa 18:3](/kjv/-2sa/18/3) ), he composed this psalm with more than ordinary artifice, viz. in order of alphabet, as he hath done also some few others, both for the excellency of the matter and likewise for help of memory; for which cause also St Matthew summeth up the genealogy of Christ into three fourteens; all helps being but little enough. Nazianzen and Sedulius have done the like; the former in his holy alphabet, Aρχην απαντων , &c., and the latter in his hymn, *A Solis ortus cardine Beatus auctor saeculi, &c.* **** Ver. 1. **Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul** ] *i.e.* *Praeparo cor meum,* saith R. Solomon. My heart maketh its faithful addresses to thee (and not any other), with strength of desire and delight, with earnest expectation and hope of relief. *Ad te orando non ad idola.*[See Jer 22:27](/kjv/-see-jer/22/27) [Deuteronomy 24:15](/kjv/deuteronomy/24/15) [Psalms 86:5](/kjv/psalms/86/5) , Cyprian saith, that in the primitive times the minister was wont to prepare the people’s minds to pray by prefacing *Sursum corda,* Lift up your hearts. The Jews at this day write upon the walls of their synagogues these words, *Tephillah belo cavannah ceguph belo neshamah;* that is, a prayer without the intention of the affection, is like a body without a soul; and yet their devotion is a mere outside, saith one, a brainless head, and a soulless body; *Antiquum obtinent,* [Isaiah 29:13](/kjv/isaiah/29/13) , Buxtorf. Abbreviat. This people draweth nigh to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. A carnal man can as little lift up his heart in prayer as a mole can fly. A David finds it a hard task; since the best heart is lumpish, and naturally beareth downward, as the poise of a clock, as the lead of a net. 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