Psalms 27:9
Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8When you said, Seek all of you my face; my heart said unto you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.
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 Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Until now has the LORD helped us.
Psalms 13:1How long will you forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 38:21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms 51:11Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy spirit from me.
Psalms 69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Psalms 71:17O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have I 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 →