Psalms 27:9
Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
8When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.
10When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:12Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.
Psalms 13:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Psalms 38:21\38:20\They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.
Psalms 51:11\51:9\Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
Psalms 69:18\69:17\Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.
Psalms 71:17O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 27:8-14
Confidence in Divine Goodness. 7 Hear, O Lord , when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord , will I seek. 9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord , and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 12… Read the whole commentary →