Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 25:6

"Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old." — Psalms 25:6 (ASV)

Remember, O Lord - That is, in Your future treatment of me, bring to remembrance what You have done, and continue to treat me in the same manner. The language is that of one who felt that God had always been kind and gracious, and who asked for the future a continuation of the favors of the past.

If we were to recall the goodness of God in the past, we would find enough to lay the foundation of prayer concerning what is to come. If we saw and fully understood all that has happened to us, we would need to offer no other prayer than that God might deal with us in the future as He has done in the past.

Thy tender mercies - Margin, as in Hebrew: “thy bowels.” The Hebrew word means the “inner parts,” regarded by the Hebrews as the seat of the affections. See the notes at Isaiah 16:11.

And thy loving-kindnesses - Your tokens of favor; Your acts of mercy and compassion.

For they have been ever of old - “For from eternity are they.” The language is that of a heart deeply impressed with a sense of the goodness of God. In looking over his own life, the author of the psalm saw that the mercies of God had been unceasing and constant toward him from his earliest years. In words expressive of warm love and gratitude, therefore, he says that those acts of mercy had never failed—had been from eternity. His thoughts rise from the acts of God toward himself to the character of God, and to His attributes of mercy and love; and his heart is full of the idea that God is always good, that it belongs to His very nature to do good.