Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- BSB May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
- ESV May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
- NKJV Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for You.
- NASB Let integrity and uprightness protect me, For I wait for You.
- NLT May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Quick answer
David asks that integrity and uprightness preserve him as he waits for God. He hopes that a blameless life and patient trust will keep him.
Overview
David desires that integrity and uprightness guard him, while expressing that his ultimate hope is in waiting for God. His character and his trust go together, yet his security rests on the Lord he awaits. Such waiting faith finds its anchor in God's faithfulness, fully revealed in Christ, who preserves all who hope in him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Prov 11:3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
- Ps 41:12And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
- Prov 20:7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
- Ps 26:11But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.
- Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
- Ps 7:8The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
- 1 Sam 26:23The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’s anointed.
- Dan 6:22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
- 1 Sam 24:11–13Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
- Ps 18:20–24The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
- Acts 25:10–11Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
How Psalms 25:21 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.