“O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.”
The petition guard the psalmist's soul and deliver him and let him not be put to shame because he trusts in God invokes divine protection grounded in the psalmist's faith. The guarding suggests active protection. The deliverance suggests rescue. The shame clause establishes that vindication confirms trust. This verse articulates the fundamental petition of the psalm.
Church Fathers on Psalms 25:20
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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