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King James Version

Psalms 25:5

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Desire;   Faith;   God Continued...;   Seekers;   Waiting;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Guidance, Divine;   Wait upon God;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Guidance;   Salvation;   Teaching;   Waiting;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Salvation;   Waiting upon God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mercy, Merciful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hope;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Salvation Save Saviour;   Truth (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Guide;   Poetry, Hebrew;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nomism;   Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry;   Patience;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 6;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.
English Revised Version
Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Update Bible Version
Guide me in your truth, and teach me; For you are the God of my salvation; For you I wait all the day.
New Century Version
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, my God, my Savior. I trust you all day long.
New English Translation
Guide me into your truth and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.
Webster's Bible Translation
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
World English Bible
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Amplified Bible
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long.
English Standard Version
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dresse thou me in thi treuthe, and teche thou me, for thou art God my sauyour; and Y suffride thee al dai.
Berean Standard Bible
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
Contemporary English Version
guide me by your truth and instruct me. You keep me safe, and I always trust you.
American Standard Version
Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; For thou art the God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day.
Bible in Basic English
Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
Complete Jewish Bible
Guide me in your truth, and teach me; for you are the God who saves me, my hope is in you all day long.
Darby Translation
Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
Easy-to-Read Version
Guide me and teach me your truths. You are my God, my Savior. You are the one I have been waiting for.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Guide me in Thy truth, and teach me; for Thou art the God of my salvation;
King James Version (1611)
Lead me in thy trueth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my saluation, on thee doe I waite all the day.
New Life Bible
Lead me in Your truth and teach me. For You are the God Who saves me. I wait for You all day long.
New Revised Standard
Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Leade me foorth in thy trueth, and teache me: for thou art the God of my saluation: in thee doe I trust all the day.
George Lamsa Translation
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art my God and my Saviour; on thee do I wait all the day.
Good News Translation
Teach me to live according to your truth, for you are my God, who saves me. I always trust in you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Guide me into thy truth and teach me, for, thou, art my delivering God, For thee, have I waited all the day:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-5) Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.
Revised Standard Version
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation; for thee I wait all the day long.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
leade me foorth in thy trueth and teache me, for thou art the Lorde of my saluation, I haue wayted for thee al the day long.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art God my Saviour: and I have waited on thee all the day.
Christian Standard Bible®
Guide me in your truth and teach me,for you are the God of my salvation;I wait for you all day long.
Hebrew Names Version
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Lexham English Bible
Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you all day long.
Literal Translation
lead me in Your truth and teach me; for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long.
Young's Literal Translation
Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou [art] the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Lede me in yi trueth and lerne me, for thou art the God off my health, and in the is my hope all the daye longe.
THE MESSAGE
Take me by the hand; Lead me down the path of truth. You are my Savior, aren't you?
New American Standard Bible
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.
New King James Version
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.
Legacy Standard Bible
Lead me in Your truth and teach me,For You are the God of my salvation;In You I hope all the day.

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

Lead: Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:10, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 43:4, Psalms 107:7, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 49:10, Jeremiah 31:9, John 8:31, John 8:32, John 14:26, John 16:13, Romans 8:14, Ephesians 4:21, 1 John 2:27, Revelation 7:17

teach: Psalms 119:26, Psalms 119:33, Psalms 119:66, Nehemiah 9:20, Job 36:22, Isaiah 54:13, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 31:34, John 6:45, Ephesians 4:20, Ephesians 4:21

God: Psalms 24:5, Psalms 68:20, Psalms 79:9, Psalms 88:1

on thee: Psalms 22:2, Psalms 86:3, Psalms 88:1, Psalms 119:97, Proverbs 8:34, Proverbs 23:17, Isaiah 30:18, Luke 18:7

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 5:8 - Lead Psalms 18:46 - the God Psalms 26:3 - and Psalms 27:11 - Teach Psalms 31:3 - lead Psalms 62:1 - my soul Psalms 119:7 - when Psalms 119:12 - teach Psalms 143:8 - cause me Psalms 143:10 - Teach Proverbs 2:3 - if Proverbs 4:11 - led Proverbs 8:20 - lead Isaiah 40:31 - they that Jeremiah 42:3 - General Micah 7:7 - wait Habakkuk 3:18 - the God Acts 10:2 - and prayed Galatians 5:5 - wait Galatians 5:18 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 24:36
And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
Genesis 25:7
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
Genesis 25:9
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
Genesis 25:10
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
Genesis 25:21
And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Genesis 25:23
And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Psalms 68:18
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.
Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me,.... Meaning the word of God, the Scriptures of truth; and the Gospel, which is the word of truth, and truth itself, John 17:17; and the sense is, either that God would lead him by his Spirit more and more into all truth, as contained in his word; or that he would lead him by it and according to it, that he might form his principles and his conduct more agreeably to it, which is the standard and rule of faith and practice: which leading is by teaching; and reasons urged for granting all the above petitions follow,

for thou [art] the God of my salvation; who, in infinite wisdom, contrived scheme and method of it in his Son, and by him effected it, and by his Spirit had made application of it to him: and since the Lord had done such great things for him, he hoped the requests he had made would be granted: he adds,

on thee do I wait all the day; or continually, in public and in private, attending to all the duties of religion, yet not trusting in them, but in the Lord; and therefore he entreated he might not be ashamed of his hope and expectation for deliverance and salvation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lead me in thy truth - In the way which thou regardest as truth, or which thou seest to be true. Truth is eternal and unchanging. What God sees and regards as truth is true, because he sees things as they are; and when we have the divine estimate of anything, we understand what the thing is. It is not that he makes it to be true, but that he sees it to be true. Such is the perfection of His nature that we have the utmost assurance that what God regards as truth is truth; what He proclaims to be right is right. It is then His truth, as He adopts it for the rule of His own conduct, and makes it known to His creatures to guide them.

And teach me - Since this would be understood by the psalmist, it would be a prayer that God would teach him by His law as then made known; by His Spirit in the heart; by the dispensations of His providence. As applicable to us, it is a prayer that He would instruct us by all the truths then made known, and all that have since been revealed; by His Spirit in its influences on our hearts; by the events which are occurring around us; by the “accumulated” truth of ages; the knowledge which by all the methods He employs He has imparted to people for their guidance and direction.

For thou art the God of my salvation - The word “salvation” is not to be understood here in the sense in which it is now commonly used, as denoting deliverance from sin and future ruin, but in the more general sense of “deliverance” - deliverance from danger and death. The phrase is synonymous with “preservation,” and the idea is that the psalmist regarded God as his preserver; or that he owed his protection and safety in the time of danger to Him alone.

On thee do I wait - That is, I rely on Thee; or, I am dependent on Thee. He had no other source of reliance or dependence.

All the day - Continually, always. He was really dependent upon Him at all times, and he felt that dependence. It is always true that we are dependent upon God for everything; it is not true that we always feel this. It was a characteristic of the piety of the psalmist that he did feel this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:5. On thee do I wait — This is the line in which ו vau, the sixth letter in the order of the alphabet, is lost; for the line begins with א aleph, אותך othecha, "on thee." But four of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. have ואותך veothecha, "AND upon thee." This restores the lost ו vau, which signifies "and." The Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Arabic, AEthiopic, and Anglo-Saxon, preserve it.


 
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