“ When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. ”
When my father and my mother forsake me - If they should do it. The psalmist supposes it possible that this might occur. It does occur, though very rarely; but the psalmist means to say that the...
(f) When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. (f) He magnifies God's love toward his, which far passes the most tender love of parents towards their children.
XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1-6 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7-14 the poet is in...
take me up . receive and protect me with His saints.
10. When my father and my mother shall forsake me. As it appears from the sacred history, that Jesse, so far as his opportunity admitted, performed his duty to his son David, some are of opi...
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. When my father and my mother forsake me - Or, more literally, "For my father and my mother have forsaken me; but the Lord hath...
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. When ... forsake me - "when," or 'since' х kiy ( H3588 )]. David's father and mother forsook him at all events at t...
This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1-6 and Psalms 27:7-14 , which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19 , two independent poems have been c...
Psalms 27:1-14 THE hypothesis that two originally distinct psalms or fragments are here blended has much in its favour. The rhythm and style of the latter half ( Psalms 27:7-14 ) are strikingly un...
the Song of Fearless Trust in God Psalms 27:1-14 This psalm probably dates from the time when the exiled king, surrounded by unscrupulous foes, looked from his hiding-place beyond the Jordan to...
The real significance of this psalm is that of the experience of worship. It is somewhat strange that the remarkable contrast between the first (vv. Psa 27:1-6) and second (vv. Psa 27:7-14) parts has...
Reader, all connections cease but this of Jesus. Hence, when flesh and heart both fail, what an everlasting resource is that, that Christ, is the strength of our heart, and our portion forever. Psal...
When my father and my mother forsake me ,.... Which is not to be understood strictly and literally of his parents, that were in that near relation to him according to the flesh, nor of anything that...
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. Ver. 10. When my father and my mother forsake me ] Or, For my father and my mother do forsake me (that is, they are not able...
When my father and mother forsake me That is, the nearest and dearest friends I have in the world, from whom I may expect most relief, and with most reason; when they either die, or are at a distan...
Confidence in Divine Goodness. 7 Hear, O L ORD , when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. ...
Forsake me; or, leave me ; as being unable to help me, and rather a burden than a help to me; for which reason David desired them to leave him, and disposed of them in another place, 1Sa 22 $. O...
When my father and my mother forsake me, Then YHWH will take me up. But in the end he is confident that even though his father and his mother forsake him, and he is cast off by his family and tribe...
INTRODUCTION This psalm has been referred by some to the period of David’s waiting for the kingdom; by others, to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. Hengstenberg says: “All attempts to find out any...
Psalms 27:1 . The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If all your light comes from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, you need not be...
REFLECTIONS . This Psalm professes to have been written in mature age, and after David's head was lifted up above his enemies. The Lord was become his light and salvation; whom in future was he to f...
The Lord is my light and my salvation. Implicit trust This psalm was written by a man who was at the moment far down in the depths of spiritual conflict, and yet was holding a steady front agai...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of those which have been called "composite"; and certainly it falls into two parts which offer the strongest possible contrast the one to the other. Part 1. ( Psal...
The Believer's Trust in God and His Word. A psalm of David, written probably about the same time as the preceding one, picturing the state of mind of one who is persecuted 'Without cause and longs...
2 Samuel 16:11 ; 2 Timothy 4:16 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; Isaiah 49:15 ; John 16:32 ; John 9:35 ; Matthew 10:21 ; Matthew 10:22 ; Matthew 10:36 ; Psalms 69:8