Psalms 27:13

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

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In The King James Version

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

In Context

12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

14Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

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Cross References

Job 28:13Man doesn’t know its price, and it isn’t found in the land of the living.

Psalms 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Psalms 142:5I cried to you, LORD. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Isaiah 38:11I said, “I won’t see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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 →

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