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Scott's Reference Library
November 30, 2003 | December 3, 2006 | November 29, 2009
Psalm 25:1 through Psalm 25:10 (NIV)
1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
2 in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one whose hope is in you
will ever be put to shame,
but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse.
4 Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths;
5 guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you are good, O LORD.
8 Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
9 He guides the humble in what is right
and teaches them his way.
10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 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 advanced believer both needs and desires
to be taught of God. If we sincerely desire to know our duty, with resolution to
do it, we may be sure that God will direct us in it. The psalmist is earnest for
the pardon of his sins. When God pardons sin, he is said to remember it no more,
which denotes full remission. It is God’s goodness, and not ours, his mercy, and
not our merit, that must be our plea for the pardon of sin, and all the good we
need. This plea we must rely upon, feeling our own unworthiness, and satisfied
of the riches of God’s mercy and grace. How boundless is that mercy which covers
for ever the sins and follies of a youth spent without God and without hope!
Blessed be the Lord, the blood of the great Sacrifice can wash away every stain.
VERSES 8-14
We are all sinners; and Christ came into the world to save sinners, to teach
sinners, to call sinners to repentance. We value a promise by the character of
him that makes it; we therefore depend upon God’s promises. All the paths of the
Lord, that is, all his promises and all his providences, are mercy and truth. In
all God’s dealings his people may see his mercy displayed, and his word
fulfilled, whatever afflictions they are now exercised with. All the paths of
the Lord are mercy and truth; and so it will appear when they come to their
journey’s end. Those that are humble, that distrust themselves, and desire to be
taught and to follow Divine guidance, these he will guide in judgment, that is,
by the rule of the written word, to find rest for their souls in the Saviour.
Even when the body is sick, and in pain, the soul may be at ease in God.