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Make me understand your ways, O Lord.
Teach me your paths.[a]
Guide me into your truth[b] and teach me.
For you are the God who delivers me;
on you I rely all day long.
Remember[c] your compassionate and faithful deeds, O Lord,
for you have always acted in this manner.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:4 sn Teach me your paths. In this context the Lord’s “ways” and “paths” refer to the moral principles which the Lord prescribes for his followers. See vv. 8-10.
  2. Psalm 25:5 sn The Lord’s commandments are referred to as truth here because they are a trustworthy and accurate expression of the divine will.
  3. Psalm 25:6 tn That is, “remember” with the intention of repeating.
  4. Psalm 25:6 tn Heb “for from antiquity [are] they.”

Show me your ways, Lord,
    teach me your paths.(A)
Guide me in your truth(B) and teach me,
    for you are God my Savior,(C)
    and my hope is in you(D) all day long.
Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love,(E)
    for they are from of old.

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