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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.

NIV: Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

NASB: Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.

CSB: Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; I wait for you all day long.

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.

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.

NKJV: Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day.

Here continues David's prayer, now asking the Lord to lead him in God's truth and to teach him. Prayer and Scripture were both important to David.

We cannot go astray if we look to the Lord in prayer and obey His Word. Psalm 119:105 states, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." We find guidance in Scripture for the next step as well as for life's long journey. As a righteous Hebrew, David knew that God had delivered His precepts and promises to the people of Israel to keep them in the path of blessing (Deuteronomy 27—30). He knew, too, that God had promised to make Joshua's way successful if Joshua obeyed the Book of the Law (Joshua 1:7–8).

In Psalm 25:5 David calls God his Savior and states that he always waits on Him. Despite the pressures of life, including vicious opposition, David endured by anticipating help from the Lord.

Psalm 25:1–7 reveals David's trust in the Lord in a time of intense danger. He waits on the Lord to keep him from falling into disgrace at the hands of his foes. Parallel to this, Psalm 37:1–11 contains David's counsel about trusting the Lord and waiting on Him. He assures his readers that the Lord will destroy evildoers but reward the righteous. Psalm 40:1–5 also records the value David found in waiting on the Lord for deliverance from danger and distress.

This prayer of David uses the Hebrew alphabet as a pattern. This is an acrostic, where verses each begin with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The final verse, however, repeats the letter used in verse 16. David declares his trust in God and the value of the Lord's wisdom. Mixed into these praises of God's truth are multiple requests that David be forgiven of his sins. The psalm ends with David asking for rescue from his enemies, and for a similar redemption for the nation of Israel.

Psalm 25 finds David facing difficulty and seeking the Lord's guidance. Proverbs 3:5–6 offers a similar emphasis on divine guidance for those who seek the Lord's will. Deuteronomy 32 provides parallel teaching, as do Psalm 37:1–7 and Psalm 40.

The book of Psalms is composed of individual songs, hymns, or poems, each of which is a ''Psalm'' in and of itself. These works contain a wide variety of themes. Some Psalms focus on praising and worshipping God. Others cry out in anguish over the pain of life. Still other Psalms look forward to the coming of the Messiah. While some Psalms are related, each has its own historical and biblical context.

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