Psalms 25:4

King James Version

Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Show me the right path, O Lord ; point out the road for me to follow.

English Revised Version
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Update Bible Version
Show me your ways, O Yahweh; Teach me your paths.

New Century Version
Lord , tell me your ways. Show me how to live.

New English Translation
Make me understand your ways, O Lord ! Teach me your paths!

Webster's Bible Translation
Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

World English Bible
Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Amplified Bible
Let me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.

English Standard Version
Make me to know your ways, O Lord ; teach me your paths.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle men doynge wickyd thingis superfluli; be schent. Lord, schewe thou thi weies to me; and teche thou me thi pathis.

Berean Standard Bible
Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.

Contemporary English Version
Show me your paths and teach me to follow;

American Standard Version
Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.

Bible in Basic English
Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

Complete Jewish Bible
Make me know your ways, Adonai , teach me your paths.

Darby Translation
Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , help me learn your ways. Show me how you want me to live.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Show me Thy ways, O LORD; teach me Thy paths.

King James Version (1611)
Shewe mee thy wayes, O Lord: teach me thy pathes.

New Life Bible
Show me Your ways, O Lord. Teach me Your paths.

New Revised Standard
Make me to know your ways, O Lord ; teach me your paths.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Shew me thy waies, O Lorde, and teache me thy paths.

George Lamsa Translation
Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Good News Translation
Teach me your ways, O Lord ; make them known to me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy ways, O Yahweh, let me know, Thy paths, teach thou me:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-4) Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. Shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

Revised Standard Version
Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make me to knowe thy wayes O God, and teache me thy pathes:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Shew me thy ways, O Lord; and teach me thy paths.

Christian Standard Bible®
Make your ways known to me, Lord;teach me your paths.

Hebrew Names Version
Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.

Lexham English Bible
Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Literal Translation
Make me know Your ways, O Jehovah; teach me Your paths;

Young's Literal Translation
Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Shewe me thy wayes (o LORDE) & teach me thy pathes.

THE MESSAGE
Show me how you work, God ; School me in your ways.

New American Standard Bible
Make me know Your ways, LORD; Teach me Your paths.

New King James Version
Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Make me know Your ways, O Lord ; Teach me Your paths.

Legacy Standard Bible
Make me know Your ways, O Yahweh;Teach me Your paths.

Contextual Overview

¹ Unto thee, O Lord , do I lift up my soul. ² O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. ³ Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. ⁴ Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. ⁵ Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. ⁶ Remember, O Lord , thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 5:1, Psalms 5:8, Psalms 27:11, Psalms 86:11, Psalms 119:27, Psalms 143:8, Exodus 33:13, Proverbs 8:20, Isaiah 2:3, Jeremiah 6:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:12 - General 2 Samuel 2:1 - inquired 1 Kings 8:36 - thou teach 2 Chronicles 6:27 - when thou hast Job 34:32 - which Psalms 43:3 - lead Psalms 51:13 - ways Psalms 119:7 - when Psalms 119:12 - teach Psalms 119:26 - teach Psalms 143:10 - Teach Proverbs 2:3 - if Proverbs 4:11 - led Proverbs 20:24 - how Jeremiah 42:3 - General Acts 2:28 - made Galatians 5:18 - if

Cross-References

Isaiah 60:6
The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Show me thy ways, O Lord,.... Either those which the Lord himself took and walked in; as those of creation and providence, in which he has displayed his power, wisdom, and goodness; and which are desirable to be known by his people, and require divine instruction and direction; and particularly his ways of grace, mercy, and truth, and the methods he has taken for the salvation of his people, both in eternity and in time; or those ways which he orders and directs his people to walk in; namely, the paths of duty, the ways of his worship and ordinances; a greater knowledge of which good men desire to have, as well as more grace to enable them to walk more closely and constantly in them;

teach me thy paths; a petition the same with the other, in different words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Show 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; the principles upon which God bestows happiness and salvation; the rules which He has been pleased to prescribe for human conduct; the arrangements by which He confers favors upon mankind; the scheme by which He saves people. The idea evidently is that he might understand so much of this as to regulate his own conduct aright; that he might not lean upon his own understanding, or trust to His own guidance, but that He might always be under the guidance and direction of God.

Teach me thy paths - The paths which thou dost take; to wit, as before, in administering the affairs of the world. The prayer is expressive of a desire to be wholly under the direction of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:4. Show 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;" Psalms 25:5.

That he may get this showing, teaching, and leading, he comes to God, as the "God of his salvation;" and that he may not lose his labour, he "waits on him all the day." Many lose the benefit of their earnest prayers, because they do not persevere in them. They pray for a time; get remiss or discouraged; restrain prayer; and thus lose all that was already wrought for and in them.