Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

25:16-21 Request for Forgiveness and Protection. The psalm gathers all these confident thoughts and turns them into prayer for the particular circumstances of trouble, asking for deliverance from the affliction, trouble, and foes that threaten (vv. 17-19), on the basis of forgiven sins (v. 18b). The virtues of integrity and uprightness (v. 21), which are recognized as gifts (cf. God's uprightness, v. 8), are God's means of protection (cf. Prov. 2:11-12).