Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 25:6
6Remember, Lord, your compassion and your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity.
Psalms 25:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
Context of Psalms 25:6
4Make your ways known to me, Lord; teach me your paths. 5Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; I wait for you all day long. Remember, Lord, your compassion and your faithful love, for they have existed from antiquity. 7Do not remember the sins of my youth or my acts of rebellion; in keeping with your faithful love, remember me because of your goodness, Lord. 8The Lord is good and upright; therefore he shows sinners the way.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:6 word by word
זְכֹר־רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה וַחֲסָדֶ֑יךָ כִּ֖י מֵעוֹלָ֣ם הֵֽמָּה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 25:6
- Psalms 98:3He has remembered his love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen our God’s victory.
- Psalms 106:45remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.
- Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our humiliation His faithful love endures forever.
- 2 Chronicles 6:42Lord God, do not reject your anointed one; remember your servant David’s acts of faithful love.
- Luke 1:54He has helped his servant Israel, remembering his mercy
- Psalms 40:11Lord, you do not withhold your compassion from me. Your constant love and truth will always guard me.
- Psalms 69:13But as for me, Lord, my prayer to you is for a time of favor. In your abundant, faithful love, God, answer me with your sure salvation.
- Psalms 103:4He redeems your life from the Pit; he crowns you with faithful love and compassion.
- Psalms 119:77May your compassion come to me so that I may live, for your instruction is my delight.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see from your lofty home — holy and beautiful. Where is your zeal and your might? Your yearning and your compassion are withheld from me.
- Jeremiah 31:20Isn’t Ephraim a precious son to me, a delightful child? Whenever I speak against him, I certainly still think about him. Therefore, my inner being yearns for him; I will truly have compassion on him. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Luke 1:78Because of our God’s merciful compassion, the dawn from on high will visit us
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
- Philippians 1:8For God is my witness, how deeply I miss all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 2:1If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,
Commentaries on Psalms 25:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindness - The word רחמים rachamim, means the commiseration that a man feels in his bowels at the sight of distress. The second word, חסדים chasadim, signifies those kindnesses which are the offspring of a profusion of benevolence. They have been ever of old - Thou wert ever wont to display thyself as a ceaseless fountain of good to all thy creatures.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Remember, O Lord - That is, In thy future treatment of me, bring to remembrance what thou hast done, and treat me in the same manner still. The language is that of one who felt that God had always been kind and gracious, and who asked for the future a continuance of the favors of the past. If we would recall, the goodness of God in the past, we should find enough to lay the foundation of prayer in reference to that which is to come. If we saw and fully…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6compassion: See also Psalms 51:1; 57:1; 103:8.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-76-7. Confessing past and present sins, he pleads for mercy, not on palliations of sin, but on God's well-known benevolence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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