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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 25:21
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May integrity and what is rightwatch over me,for I wait for you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
My hope is in you, so may goodness and honesty guard me.
May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait [expectantly] for You.
Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Let mine vprightnes and equitie preserue me: for mine hope is in thee.
Let integrity and uprightness guard me,For I hope in You.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
I obey you with all my heart, and I trust you, knowing that you will save me.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because my hope is in you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
You are good and do what is right. I trust you to protect me.
The innocent and the upright have followed me because I have trusted in thee.
May my goodness and honesty preserve me, because I trust in you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.
Let purity and uprightness keep me, for I wait on You.
Let innocency and rightuous dealinge wayte vpon me, for my hope is in the.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for thee.
For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.
Let integritie and vprightnesse preserue me: for I wait on thee.
Let integritie and vprighteous dealing kepe me safe: for I haue wayted after thee.
The harmless and upright joined themselves to me: for I waited for thee, O Lord.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee.
Innocent men and riytful cleuyden to me; for Y suffride thee.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
Let what is good and what is right keep me safe, because I wait for You.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.
(24-21) The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 7:8, Psalms 18:20-24, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 26:11, Psalms 41:12, 1 Samuel 24:11-13, 1 Samuel 26:23, Proverbs 11:3, Proverbs 20:7, Daniel 6:22, Acts 24:16, Acts 25:10, Acts 25:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - in the integrity Psalms 27:14 - Wait Psalms 69:3 - I wait Psalms 116:6 - preserveth Psalms 119:80 - sound Proverbs 2:11 - General Proverbs 10:9 - that walketh Proverbs 13:6 - Righteousness Proverbs 14:2 - that walketh Proverbs 28:18 - walketh Isaiah 40:31 - they that Jeremiah 14:22 - wait
Cross-References
Sarai was barren; she had no children.
Jokshan had Sheba and Dedan. Dedan's descendants were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim.
This is the family tree of Ishmael son of Abraham, the son that Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham.
This is the family tree of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham had Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram. She was the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Hannah Pours Out Her Heart to God There once was a man who lived in Ramathaim. He was descended from the old Zuph family in the Ephraim hills. His name was Elkanah. (He was connected with the Zuphs from Ephraim through his father Jeroham, his grandfather Elihu, and his great-grandfather Tohu.) He had two wives. The first was Hannah; the second was Peninnah. Peninnah had children; Hannah did not. Every year this man went from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to God -of-the-Angel-Armies. Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the priests of God there. When Elkanah sacrificed, he passed helpings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife Peninnah and all her children, but he always gave an especially generous helping to Hannah because he loved her so much, and because God had not given her children. But her rival wife taunted her cruelly, rubbing it in and never letting her forget that God had not given her children. This went on year after year. Every time she went to the sanctuary of God she could expect to be taunted. Hannah was reduced to tears and had no appetite. Her husband Elkanah said, "Oh, Hannah, why are you crying? Why aren't you eating? And why are you so upset? Am I not of more worth to you than ten sons?" So Hannah ate. Then she pulled herself together, slipped away quietly, and entered the sanctuary. The priest Eli was on duty at the entrance to God 's Temple in the customary seat. Crushed in soul, Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried—inconsolably. Then she made a vow: Oh, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, If you'll take a good, hard look at my pain, If you'll quit neglecting me and go into action for me By giving me a son, I'll give him completely, unreservedly to you. I'll set him apart for a life of holy discipline. It so happened that as she continued in prayer before God , Eli was watching her closely. Hannah was praying in her heart, silently. Her lips moved, but no sound was heard. Eli jumped to the conclusion that she was drunk. He approached her and said, "You're drunk! How long do you plan to keep this up? Sober up, woman!" Hannah said, "Oh no, sir—please! I'm a woman hard used. I haven't been drinking. Not a drop of wine or beer. The only thing I've been pouring out is my heart, pouring it out to God . Don't for a minute think I'm a bad woman. It's because I'm so desperately unhappy and in such pain that I've stayed here so long." Eli answered her, "Go in peace. And may the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him." "Think well of me—and pray for me!" she said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant. Up before dawn, they worshiped God and returned home to Ramah. Elkanah slept with Hannah his wife, and God began making the necessary arrangements in response to what she had asked. Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him." When Elkanah next took his family on their annual trip to Shiloh to worship God , offering sacrifices and keeping his vow, Hannah didn't go. She told her husband, "After the child is weaned, I'll bring him myself and present him before God —and that's where he'll stay, for good." Elkanah said to his wife, "Do what you think is best. Stay home until you have weaned him. Yes! Let God complete what he has begun!" So she did. She stayed home and nursed her son until she had weaned him. Then she took him up to Shiloh, bringing also the makings of a generous sacrificial meal—a prize bull, flour, and wine. The child was so young to be sent off! They first butchered the bull, then brought the child to Eli. Hannah said, "Excuse me, sir. Would you believe that I'm the very woman who was standing before you at this very spot, praying to God ? I prayed for this child, and God gave me what I asked for. And now I have dedicated him to God . He's dedicated to God for life." Then and there, they worshiped God .
So we fasted and prayed about these concerns. And he listened.
Don't you see that children are God 's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.
He does what's best for those who fear him— hears them call out, and saves them.
The nightmares of the wicked come true; what the good people desire, they get.
Thus God , The Holy of Israel, Israel's Maker, says: "Do you question who or what I'm making? Are you telling me what I can or cannot do? I made earth, and I created man and woman to live on it. I handcrafted the skies and direct all the constellations in their turnings. And now I've got Cyrus on the move. I've rolled out the red carpet before him. He will build my city. He will bring home my exiles. I didn't hire him to do this. I told him. I, God -of-the-Angel-Armies."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,.... Meaning either his own, as in Psalms 7:8; and then the sense is, either that God would preserve him, seeing he had acted the faithful and upright part in the government of the people of Israel, and they had rebelled against him without a cause; see Psalms 78:72; or that those might be continued with him, that he might not be led aside by the corruptions of his heart, and the temptations of Satan, and by the provocations of his rebellious subjects, to act a part disagreeable to his character, as a man of integrity and uprightness; but that these remaining with him, might be a means of keeping him in the ways of God, Proverbs 13:6; or else the integrity and uprightness of God are designed, which are no other than his goodness and grace to his people, and his faithfulness in his covenant and promises, or his lovingkindness and his truth; see
Psalms 40:11;
for I wait on thee: in the use of means for deliverance and safety; the Targum is, "for I trust in thy word".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me - The word here rendered “integrity” means properly “perfection.” See it explained in the notes at Job 1:1. The language here may refer either:
(a) to God - as denoting His perfection and uprightness, and then the psalmist’s prayer would be that He, a righteous God, would keep him; or
(b) to his own integrity and uprightness of character, and then the prayer would be that that might be the means of keeping him, as the ground of his safety, under the government of a righteous God; or,
(c) which I think the more probable meaning, it may be the utterance of a prayer that God would show Himself upright and perfect in protecting one who put his trust in Him; one who was wronged and injured by his fellow-men; one who fled to God for refuge in time of persecution and trouble.
It was not exactly the divine perfections, as such, on which he relied; nor was it the integrity and purity of his own life; but it was the government of God, considered as just and equal, as bearing on himself and those who had wronged him.
For I wait on thee - That is, I depend on thee, or I rely on thee. This is a reason why he pleaded that God would preserve him. See the notes at Psalms 25:20.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 25:21. Let integrity and uprightness — I wish to have a perfect heart, and an upright life. This seems to be the meaning of these two words.
