Psalms 25
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11. God's perfections of love, mercy, goodness, and truth are manifested (his name, compare Psalms 9:10 ) in pardoning sin, and the greatness of sin renders pardon more needed.
12, 13. What he asks for himself is the common lot of all the pious.
13. inherit the earth--(compare Matthew 5:5 ). The phrase, alluding to the promise of Canaan, expresses all the blessings included in that promise, temporal as well as spiritual.
14. The reason of the blessing explained--the pious enjoy communion with God (compare Proverbs 3:21 Proverbs 3:22 ), and, of course, learn His gracious terms of pardon.
15. His trust in God is fixed.
net--is frequently used as a figure for dangers by enemies ( Psalms 9:15 , 10:9 ).
16-19. A series of earnest appeals for aid because God had seemed to desert him (compare Psalms 13:1 , 17:13 , &c.), his sins oppressed him, his enemies had enlarged his troubles and were multiplied, increasing in hate and violence ( Psalms 9:8 , 18:48 ).
20. keep my soul--( Psalms 16:1 ).
put my trust--flee for refuge ( Psalms 2:12 ).
21. In conscious innocence of the faults charged by his enemies, he confidently commits his cause to God. Some refer-- integrity, &c.--to God, meaning His covenant faithfulness. This sense, though good, is an unusual application of the terms.
22. Extend these blessings to all Thy people in all their distresses.