John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 25:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.] Either “in prayer”, as the Chaldee paraphrase adds f387; and denotes sincere, affectionate, hearty prayer to God, a drawing nigh to him with a true heart: for unless the heart is lifted up, the lifting up of the eyes or hands in prayer is of no avail; (see <250341> Lamentations 3:41); or by way of offering to the Lord, as some Jewish writers f388 interpret it; David not only presented his body in public worship, but his soul also as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which was his reasonable service; or else as a “depositum”, which he committed into the hands of God, to be under his care and protection; and then the sense is the same with (<193105>Psalm 31:5) f389; the phrase is sometimes used to express earnest and vehement desire after anything; (see Gill on “<192404>Psalm 24:4”); and may here intend the very great desire of the psalmist after communion with God; which is elsewhere by him expressed by panting after him, and by thirsting for him in a dry and thirsty land, (<194201>Psalm 42:1 63:1); the desires of his soul were not to vain things, the vanities and idols of the Gentiles, but to God only, and to the remembrance of his name.

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