Psalm 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.… God is addressed as a friend. Three things in David's prayer. 1. What is the rule according to which he looks for this Divine guidance? "Lead me in Thy righteousness." The righteousness here is God's faithfulness. All God's dealings with His people have been faithful. 2. Why he wishes this leading. It is that he may be divinely instructed in the right path. The Christian may sometimes be in a state of great perplexity as to the way he should go. He desires Divine guidance in the path of Christian experience, in the path of practice, and in the path of precept. 3. The motive he pleads to enforce it with God. The margin reads — "Because of my observers. Who are our observers? The world, fellow Christians, ministers, angels, and God. (William Jay.) Parallel Verses KJV: Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.WEB: Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face. |
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