“Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.”
This prayer for guidance opens with the declaration to You O Lord I lift up my soul establishes the psalmist's spiritual orientation toward God. The lifting of soul suggests elevation of attention and desire. This opening frames the prayer as a movement of the whole person toward God.
Church Fathers on Psalms 25:1
To the end, a psalm of David himself. 1. Christ speaks, but in the person of the Church: for what is said has reference rather to the Christian People turned unto God. 2. “Unto You, O Lord, have I lift up my soul” Psalm 24:1: with spiritual longing have I lift up the soul, that was trodden down on the earth with carnal longings. “O my God, in You I trust, I shall not be ashamed” Psalm 24:2. O my God, from trusting in myself I was brought even to this weakness of the flesh;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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