Psalms 27:1
LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
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Exodus 15:2LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Deuteronomy 7:21Thou shall not be frightened at them, for LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and awesome.
Psalms 3:8Salvation belongs to LORD. Thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah.
Psalms 18:1I love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Psalms 18:29For by thee I run upon a troop, and by my God I leap over a wall.
Psalms 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 27:1
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him ( 2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17 ) and his people thereupon resolved he should never venture his life again in battle, lest he should quench the light of Israel. Perhaps it was not penned upon any particular… Read the whole commentary →