Psalms 25:18-22

18 Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins.

19 See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me!

20 Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

21 May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, LORD,^[a] is in you.

22 Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles!

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Psalms 25:18-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 25

\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This is the first of the psalms which is written in an alphabetical order, or in which the first word of every verse begins with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order, though it is not strictly and regularly observed; the reason of this manner of writing is not very obvious; the {r} Jews confess their ignorance of it; it may be to engage the attention to what is said, or to assist the memory in laying it up, and retaining it there. The occasion of the psalm seems to be the troubles David was in on account of an unnatural rebellion raised against him by some of his subjects, at the head of which was his own son Absalom; he speaks of himself as in a net, and in great affliction, distress, and trouble, by reason of his enemies, Ps 25:15-18; and as being brought to a sense of his former sins, for which he desires pardon, Ps 25:7,11. {r} Kimchi in loc.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

1. S Psalms 13:3; Romans 12:12
2. S 2 Samuel 16:12
3. Psalms 103:3
4. Psalms 3:1; Psalms 9:13
5. Psalms 35:19; Psalms 38:19; Psalms 69:4
6. Psalms 86:2
7. Psalms 17:13; Psalms 22:21; Psalms 43:1; Psalms 71:2; Psalms 116:4; Psalms 140:1; Psalms 142:6; Psalms 144:11
8. ver 3
9. Psalms 2:12
10. S Genesis 20:5; Proverbs 10:9; Psalms 41:12
11. 1 Kings 9:4; Psalms 85:10; Psalms 111:8; Isaiah 60:17; Malachi 2:6
12. ver 3
13. Psalms 130:8; Luke 24:21

Footnotes 1

[a]. Septuagint; Hebrew does not have Lord.