תהלים 25:4

Hebrew Modern Translation

דרכיך יהוה הודיעני ארחותיך למדני׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
יהוה הודיעני ארחותיך למדני

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
דְּרָכֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה הוֹדִיעֵ֑נִי אֹ֖רְחוֹתֶ֣יךָ לַמְּדֵֽנִי ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
דְּרָכֶיךָ יְהוָה הוֹדִיעֵנִי אֹרְחוֹתֶיךָ לַמְּדֵֽנִי ׃

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

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.