Psaume 25

1 De David. Eternel! j'élève à toi mon âme.

2 Mon Dieu! en toi je me confie: que je ne sois pas couvert de honte! Que mes ennemis ne se réjouissent pas à mon sujet!

3 Tous ceux qui espèrent en toi ne seront point confondus; Ceux-là seront confondus qui sont infidèles sans cause.

4 Eternel! fais-moi connaître tes voies, Enseigne-moi tes sentiers.

5 Conduis-moi dans ta vérité, et instruis-moi; Car tu es le Dieu de mon salut, Tu es toujours mon espérance.

6 Eternel! souviens-toi de ta miséricorde et de ta bonté; Car elles sont éternelles.

7 Ne te souviens pas des fautes de ma jeunesse ni de mes transgressions; Souviens-toi de moi selon ta miséricorde, A cause de ta bonté, ô Eternel!

8 L'Eternel est bon et droit: C'est pourquoi il montre aux pécheurs la voie.

9 Il conduit les humbles dans la justice, Il enseigne aux humbles sa voie.

10 Tous les sentiers de l'Eternel sont miséricorde et fidélité, Pour ceux qui gardent son alliance et ses commandements.

11 C'est à cause de ton nom, ô Eternel! Que tu pardonneras mon iniquité, car elle est grande.

12 Quel est l'homme qui craint l'Eternel? L'Eternel lui montre la voie qu'il doit choisir.

13 Son âme reposera dans le bonheur, Et sa postérité possédera le pays.

14 L'amitié de l'Eternel est pour ceux qui le craignent, Et son alliance leur donne instruction.

15 Je tourne constamment les yeux vers l'Eternel, Car il fera sortir mes pieds du filet.

16 Regarde-moi et aie pitié de moi, Car je suis abandonné et malheureux.

17 Les angoisses de mon coeur augmentent; Tire-moi de ma détresse.

18 Vois ma misère et ma peine, Et pardonne tous mes péchés.

19 Vois combien mes ennemis sont nombreux, Et de quelle haine violente ils me poursuivent.

20 Garde mon âme et sauve-moi! Que je ne sois pas confus, Quand je cherche auprès de toi mon refuge!

21 Que l'innocence et la droiture me protègent, Quand je mets en toi mon espérance!

22 O Dieu! délivre Israël De toutes ses détresses!

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Psaume 25 Commentary

Chapter 25

Confidence in prayer. (1-7) Prayer for remission of sins. (8-14) For help in affliction. (15-22)

Verses 1-7 In worshipping God, we must lift up our souls to him. It is certain that none who, by a believing attendance, wait on God, and, by a believing hope, wait for him, shall be ashamed of it. The most advanced believer both needs and desires to be taught of God. If we sincerely desire to know our duty, with resolution to do it, we may be sure that God will direct us in it. The psalmist is earnest for the pardon of his sins. When God pardons sin, he is said to remember it no more, which denotes full remission. It is God's goodness, and not ours, his mercy, and not our merit, that must be our plea for the pardon of sin, and all the good we need. This plea we must rely upon, feeling our own unworthiness, and satisfied of the riches of God's mercy and grace. How boundless is that mercy which covers for ever the sins and follies of a youth spent without God and without hope! Blessed be the Lord, the blood of the great Sacrifice can wash away every stain.

Verses 8-14 We are all sinners; and Christ came into the world to save sinners, to teach sinners, to call sinners to repentance. We value a promise by the character of him that makes it; we therefore depend upon God's promises. All the paths of the Lord, that is, all his promises and all his providences, are mercy and truth. In all God's dealings his people may see his mercy displayed, and his word fulfilled, whatever afflictions they are now exercised with. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; and so it will appear when they come to their journey's end. Those that are humble, that distrust themselves, and desire to be taught and to follow Divine guidance, these he will guide in judgment, that is, by the rule of the written word, to find rest for their souls in the Saviour. Even when the body is sick, and in pain, the soul may be at ease in God.

Verses 15-22 The psalmist concludes, as he began, with expressing dependence upon God, and desire toward him. It is good thus to hope, and quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord. And if God turns to us, no matter who turns from us. He pleads his own integrity. Though guilty before God, yet, as to his enemies, he had the testimony of conscience that he had done them no wrong. God would, at length, give Israel rest from all their enemies round about. In heaven, God's Israel will be perfectly redeemed from all troubles. Blessed Saviour, thou hast graciously taught us that without thee we can do nothing. Do thou teach us how to pray, how to appear before thee in the way which thou shalt choose, and how to lift up our whole hearts and desires after thee, for thou art the Lord our righteousness.

Taken from Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise)

Chapter Summary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 25

\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This is the first of the psalms which is written in an alphabetical order, or in which the first word of every verse begins with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order, though it is not strictly and regularly observed; the reason of this manner of writing is not very obvious; the {r} Jews confess their ignorance of it; it may be to engage the attention to what is said, or to assist the memory in laying it up, and retaining it there. The occasion of the psalm seems to be the troubles David was in on account of an unnatural rebellion raised against him by some of his subjects, at the head of which was his own son Absalom; he speaks of himself as in a net, and in great affliction, distress, and trouble, by reason of his enemies, Ps 25:15-18; and as being brought to a sense of his former sins, for which he desires pardon, Ps 25:7,11. {r} Kimchi in loc.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible