Psalms 25:2
in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
BSB
ASV
O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me.
KJV
O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 25:2-3 (585)
Enemies laugh when they see that the trust of just people has not been fulfilled.… Laughter is most often a quality of someone of good will, but laughing at someone is always the mark of an enemy.
David, then, was carried upward to God with the whole desire of his heart, because, trusting to his promises, he thereby hoped for sure salvation. When he asks that God would not suffer him to be put to shame, he offers up a prayer which is taken from the ordinary doctrine of Scripture, namely, that they who trust in God shall never be ashamed.
O my God. This title is more dear than the name Jehovah, which is used in the first sentence. Already the sweet singer has drawn nearer to his heavenly helper, for he makes bold to grasp him with the hand of assured possession, calling him, my God. Oh the more than celestial music of that word— "My God!"
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Romans 10:11It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
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For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
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So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
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Romans 5:5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
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And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or…
