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Psalms 25:15
My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses Yahweh mid-plea, sandwiched between a statement of divine intimacy (v. 14) and a cry of loneliness (v. 16).
The words — רֶ֣שֶׁת (reshet) is a physical net or mesh, the kind that entangles; תָּ֭מִיד (tamid) marks the gaze as unbroken, not a momentary glance.
The thread — The same eyes-and-net pairing appears in Psalms 141:8 (eyes fixed, soul not left defenseless) and Psalms 31:4 (freed from a laid net); Psalms 124:7 gives the escape image as a bird slipping from a fowler's snare.
Why it lands — The verse ties deliverance to a sustained posture of attention: the feet are freed not by the speaker's effort but by the direction of the eyes.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Cross-references
- Psalms 141:8 But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
- Psalms 124:7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
- Psalms 31:4 You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
- Psalms 121:1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- Psalms 123:2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
- Jeremiah 5:26 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- 2 Timothy 2:25 He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.