George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 27:6
Blessed. This energetic epithet is generally applied to the Lord, and as it is also given to Christ, he must be true God, Romans ix. 5., &c.
Blessed. This energetic epithet is generally applied to the Lord, and as it is also given to Christ, he must be true God, Romans ix. 5., &c.
Verse Psalms 27:6. _NOW SHALL MINE HEAD BE LIFTED UP_] We shall most assuredly be redeemed from this captivity, and restored to our own land, and to the worship of our God in his own temple. There sha...
AND NOW SHALL MINE HEAD - Now shall I be exalted. So we say that in affliction a person bows down his head; in prosperity he lifts it up. This verse expresses the confident expectation that he would b...
Psalms 27 Holy Longings and Anticipations _ 1. Confidence in the Lord (Psalms 27:1)_ 2. Longings and anticipations (Psalms 27:4) 3. Earnest prayer in trial and trust in the Lord ...
XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7 the poet is in grievous af...
OFFER. sacrifice. Hebrew. _zabach._ SACRIFICES OF JOY. joyful sacrifices. Genitive of character. See App-17. i: i.e. with shoutings of joy....
To be Jehovah's guest and live secure under His protection is the Psalmist's chief desire; and even now he confidently anticipates deliverance from his foes. Psalms 27:4 can hardly be understood liter...
_And now_&c. In the immediate future he anticipates not protection only but triumphant victory. Cp. Psalms 3:3; Psalms 110:7. _in his tabernacle_ Lit. in his tent, as in the preceding verse. There it...
PSALMS 27 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust and Prayer in the Hour of Danger. ANALYSIS Part I., Two pentameter hexastichs: Stanza I., Psalms 27:1-3, That which Jehovah Is Now he Has Been in the Past, and Wil...
_AND NOW SHALL MINE HEAD BE LIFTED UP ABOVE MINE ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT ME: THEREFORE WILL I OFFER IN HIS TABERNACLE SACRIFICES OF JOY; I WILL SING, YEA, I WILL SING PRAISES UNTO THE LORD._ And now - "A...
This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1 and Psalms 27:7, which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19, two independent poems have been combined. The...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
SACRIFICES OF JOY. — Literally, _of shouting;_ so LXX. and Vulg., _hostiam vociferationis._ The custom of blowing trumpets (Numbers 10:10; comp. Sir. 1:16-18) at the time of the burnt offering illustr...
וְ עַתָּ֨ה יָר֪וּם רֹאשִׁ֡י עַ֤ל אֹֽיְבַ֬י סְ
Psalms 27:1 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) are strikingly unlike those o...
THE SONG OF FEARLESS TRUST IN GOD Psalms 27:1 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 Holy...
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...
(d) And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. (d) David...
These are some of the blessed effects of the knowledge and enjoyment of the Lord. Oh, how blessed is it to be in Christ, the sanctuary! Oh, how blessed to lift up the head in his strength! And oh, how...
6._And I will offer sacrifices of triumph _(583) _in his tabernacle. _By making a solemn vow of thanksgiving, after he shall have been delivered from dangers, he confirms himself again in the hope of...
In Psalms 27 we have two distinct parts, and, I apprehend, then in the last two Verses (Psa 27:21-22) the result for the mind of the saint as taught of God. The first part, Verses 1-6 (Psalms 27:1-6),...
AND NOW SHALL MINE HEAD BE LIFTED UP,.... That is, when brought into the house of the Lord, hid in the secret of his tabernacle, and set upon the rock Christ; by this phrase he means, either that he s...
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Ver. 6. _And n...
_In the time of trouble he shall hide_, or, _hath hid me_ Justly do I prize the house and service of God so highly, both because I am under such vast obligations to him for his former protection and f...
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 fo...
And now shall mine head be lifted up, in the triumph of a certain victory, ABOVE MINE ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT ME, the fact of whose defeat places the believer beyond their reach; THEREFORE WILL I OFFER IN...
OF JOY: _ Heb._ of shouting...
1-6 The Lord, who is the believer's light, is the strength of his life; not only by whom, but in whom he lives and moves. In God let us strengthen ourselves. The gracious presence of God, his power,...
MINE HEAD SHALL BE LIFTED UP ABOVE MINE ENEMIES; he will advance me above them, and give me a complete victory over them. SACRIFICES OF JOY, or _of shouting_ or _resounding_, i.e. of thanksgiving; whi...
Psalms 27:6 head H7218 lifted H7311 (H8799) enemies H341 (H8802) around H5439 offer H2076 (H8799) sacrifices...
And now shall my head be lifted up, Above my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tabernacle, Sacrifices of joy. His confidence in YHWH's protection gives him the further confidence of t...
Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my tight and my salvation; whom shall I fear?_ If a man has a light that can never go out, a sun which will never set, and a salvation which must always save, and God is all...
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 af...
Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?_ A sort of trembling seems to have been creeping over him, so h...
Very much of the language of David used here, I trust, we can make our own. May the Spirit of God lead us to understand, by experience, what he has written. Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my...
Psalms 27:1. _The Lord is my light and my salvation;_ First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true con...
David is in the darkness of sorrow, his enemies are many and mighty, and they make a dead set against him, and seek utterly to destroy him; but he finds his comfort where every true believer must ever...
CONTENTS: David glories in Jehovah's name and expresses triumphant faith. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God is the believer's light and strength by whom and in whom he lives. We should therefo...
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 fear...
_For in the time of trouble He shall hide me._ SAFETY IN TIME OF TROUBLE I. David makes account that, while he lives here on earth, he is liable and subject to manifold evils. Reasons-- 1. God’s Di...
_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 against...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 27:1. In singing Psalms 27:1, God’s people have a way to express confidence in him and to respond to challenging life situations. The psalm de
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 oc...
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. (Psalms 27:1)...
1 Chronicles 22:18; 1 Peter 2:5; 2 Chronicles 30:21; 2 Kings 25:27;...