Psalms 25:1

Psalm 25 1 

By David.

25:1 O Lord, I come before you in prayer. 2 

Psalms 105:31

105:31 He ordered flies to come; 3 

gnats invaded their whole territory.

1 sn Psalm 25. The psalmist asks for divine protection, guidance and forgiveness as he affirms his loyalty to and trust in the Lord. This psalm is an acrostic; every verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, except for v. 18, which, like v. 19, begins with ר (resh) instead of the expected ק (qof). The final verse, which begins with פ (pe), stands outside the acrostic scheme.

2 tn Heb “to you, O Lord, my life I lift up.” To “lift up” one’s “life” to the Lord means to express one’s trust in him through prayer. See Pss 86:4; 143:8.

3 tn Heb “he spoke and flies came.”