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Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.
Psalms 25:5 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
  • KJV Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
  • BSB Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
  • ESV Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
  • NKJV Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.
  • NLT Lead me by your truth and teach me, for you are the God who saves me. All day long I put my hope in you.

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Quick answer

David asks to be guided in God's truth and taught, resting in him as the God of salvation while waiting all day. Patient trust accompanies the prayer for guidance.

Overview

David seeks to be led in God's truth, grounding his request in God as the God of his salvation upon whom he waits continually. Guidance and salvation are bound together, for the God who saves also instructs. This anticipates Christ, who is the truth and who sends the Spirit to lead his people into all truth.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 34

  • Prov 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
  • Isa 30:18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 43:3–4Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
  • John 14:26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
  • John 16:13However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
  • Rev 7:17for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
  • Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
  • Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
  • Ps 79:9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
  • Neh 9:20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
  • Ps 107:7he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.
  • Ps 119:66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
  • Rom 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
  • Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
  • Prov 23:17Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.
  • Ps 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
  • Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
  • Eph 4:20–21But you did not learn Christ that way;
  • Ps 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
  • Ps 119:26I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
  • John 8:31–32Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
  • Ps 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
  • Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
  • 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
  • John 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
  • Ps 86:3Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
  • Ps 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.
  • Jer 31:9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
  • Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
  • Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
  • Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

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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 25:5 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.

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