English Standard Version
Psalms 25:4
4Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
Psalms 25:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
- New International Version (NIV)Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.
Context of Psalms 25:4
2O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. 3Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. 5Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. 6Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:4 word by word
דְּרָכֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה הוֹדִיעֵ֑נִי אֹ֖רְחוֹתֶ֣יךָ לַמְּדֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 25:4
- Psalms 5:1Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
- Psalms 27:11Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
- Psalms 86:11Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
- Psalms 119:27Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
- Psalms 143:8Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
- Exodus 33:13Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people."
- Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
- Isaiah 2:3and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 6:16Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
Commentaries on Psalms 25:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Show me thy ways - The psalmist wishes to know God's way, to be taught his path, and to be led into his truth. He cannot discern this way unless God show it; he cannot learn the path unless God teach it; and he cannot walk in God's truth unless God lead him: and even then, unless God continue to teach, he shall never fully learn the lessons of his salvation; therefore he adds, "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me;" Psalm 25:5. That he may get this showing…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Show me thy ways, O Lord - The “ways” of God are His methods of administering the affairs of the world; His dispensations; the rules which He has prescribed for Himself in the execution of His plans; the great laws by which He governs the universe. Deuteronomy 32:4, “all his ways are judgment; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” The prayer of the psalmist is, that he may be able to understand the methods of the divine government…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6The right path, the path of wisdom (see Psalm 5:8), involves being open to instruction that leads to life (27:11; 43:3; 73:24; 119:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-54-5. On the ground of former favor, he invokes divine guidance, according to God's gracious ways of dealing and faithfulness.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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