Psalm 25- 1
- Psalm 25 Of David. [1]
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- To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
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- in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me.
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- 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.
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- Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths;
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- guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
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- Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
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- Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.
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- Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
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- He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
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- All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
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- For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
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- Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him.
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- He will spend his days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
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- The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.
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- My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare.
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- Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.
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- The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish.
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- Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.
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- See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me!
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- Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
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- May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.
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- Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles!
- This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.