Psalms 27:11

David asks God to teach him His way and lead him on a level path because of his enemies. It links right living with reliance on God's guidance under pressure.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 25:4–5Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
• Ps 5:8Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.
• Ps 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
• Ps 26:12My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
• Ps 143:8–10Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
• Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
• Prov 2:6–9For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
• Ps 64:6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
• Isa 30:20–21Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
• 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.
• Luke 3:4–6As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight.
• Prov 8:9They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
• Ps 56:5–6All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
• Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
• Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
• Ps 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
• Dan 6:4–5Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
• Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
• Ps 54:5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
• Prov 15:19The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

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