Psalms 27:9
Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”
10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Cross References
1 Samuel 7:12Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “The LORD helped us until now.”
Psalms 13:1How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 38:21Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.
Psalms 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalms 69:18Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Psalms 71:17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
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 →