Psalms 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Remember	תִּ֫זְכֹּ֥ר tiz.Kor	H2142	properly · verb, qal jussive, 2nd person masculine singular
sins	חַטֹּ֤אות cha.Tot	H2403	an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness) · noun, common feminine plural construct
youth	נְעוּרַ֨י ne.'u.Rai	H5271	(only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
transgressions	וּפְשָׁעַ֗י u.fe.sha.'Ai	H6588	a revolt (national · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
mercy	כְּחַסְדְּךָ֥ ke.chas.de.Kha	H2617	kindness · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
remember	זְכָר ze.khor-	H2142	properly · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
goodness’	טוּבְךָ֣ tu.ve.Kha	H2898	good (as a noun) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title

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Cross-references

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all m…
Hebrews 10:16-18 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds w…
Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Job 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth eve…
Psalms 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 25:1-7

Here we have David's professions of desire towards God and dependence on him. He often begins his psalms with such professions, not to move God, but to move himself, and to engage himself to answer those professions. I. He professes his desire towards God: Unto thee, O Lord! do I lift up my soul, Psa 25:1. In the foregoing psalm (Psa 25:4) it was made the character of a good man that he has not lifted up his soul to vanity; and a call was given to the everlasting gates to lift up their heads for the King of glory to come in, Psa 25:1. To this character, to this call, David here answers, "Lord, I lift up my soul, not to vanity, but to thee." Note, In worshipping God we must lift up our souls…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 25:6

Confessing past and present sins, he pleads for mercy, not on palliations of sin, but on God's well-known benevolence.

John Gill on Psalms 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth,.... Original sin, in which he was born, and the breakings forth of corrupt nature in infancy, he brought into the world with him, together with all the youthful lusts and vanities to which that age is addicted; and sometimes the sins of youth are in some persons remembered by God, and punished in old age; and if not, they are brought to remembrance through the dispensations of Providence: and the people of God are chastised for them then, and are ready to fear it is in a way of wrath; see Job 13:26; which the psalmist here deprecates; for this is not said in order to extenuate his sins, they being but youthful follies, imprudencies, and inadvertencies, sins…

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John Calvin on Psalms 25:4-7

Psalm 25:4-7 4. O Jehovah! make me to know thy ways, and teach me thy paths. 5. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art the God of my salvation: I have waited for thee all the day. 6. Remember, O Jehovah! thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses, for they have been from everlasting. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy compassion, and for the sake of thy goodness, O Jehovah! do thou remember me. 4. O Jehovah! make me to know thy ways. By the ways of the Lord, David sometimes means, as we have seen in another place, the happy and prosperous issue of affairs, but more frequently he uses this expression to denote the rule of a holy and rig…

The Church Fathers

In those expressions what he was asking for was this: According to your great mercy, remember me; remember not my sin but me in loving fashion.
— Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 25:3

By "youthful sin" he refers to the people's sins in Egypt, where they committed idolatry, remember. So now, he is saying, remember not those sins but your lovingkindness, by which even then you were kind to them in their ignorance and had mercy on them of your own accord even without being asked; and so now, too, exercise such care and lovingkindness for your own sake.
— Diodorus of Tarsus, COMMENTARY ON PSALM 25

And again he saith, "Lead me, O Lord, in Thy fear and righteousness", and because he knew what the profit of the fear of God was, he asked it as a gift from God. For all the conversation of the soul which the fear of God leadeth standeth in righteousness. And again, when he [David] entreated God not to remember the sins of his youth, he was moved to make this request by the fear of God.
— Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 7 -- Second Discourse on the Fear of God

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Dictionary and topics

Manna — Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived…

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Psalms 25:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 25:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 25:6

John Gill on Psalms 25:7

John Calvin on Psalms 25:4-7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 25:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 25:1-7

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 25:6

John Gill on Psalms 25:7

John Calvin on Psalms 25:4-7

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 25:7

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 25:6

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 25:7