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Psalms 27:1-14

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 describes a faithful person attacked by those who would destroy him. One who can trust God in those circumstances can trust him in other situations as well.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    With Jehovah on his side, he knows no fear. This faith, the constant theme of prophet and psalmist, finds its N.T. extension in Romans 8:31....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _David sustaineth his faith by the power of God, by his love to the service of God, and by prayer._ _A Psalm_ of David. _TITLE._ לדוד _LEDAVID._— The Greek title is, "A Psalm of David before he was a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:1 afraid? (e-28) 'Fear' and 'be afraid' are nearly the same, but it seems that the latter is more 'terror,' even used of Jehovah. see 1 Samuel 11:7 ; Psalms 36:1 ; 'fear' more in a godly sense, as...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STRENGTH] in the sense of 'stronghold': see Psalms 18:2....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לְ דָוִ֨ד ׀ יְהוָ֤ה ׀ אֹורִ֣י וְ֭ יִשְׁעִי מִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We shall enter into the spirit of this most lovely Psalm with double delight, if, as it refers so highly to Christ, we keep him in view through the whole of it. And that it is Jesus who is principally...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA’_ ‘The Lord is my light.’ Psalms 27:1 ‘The Lord is my light.’ Here only does David, in all his psalms, so speak of the Lord; and, indeed, this exact expression only occurs...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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),...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD [IS] MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR?.... The Targum in the king of Spain's Bible explains it, "the Word of the Lord is my light"; and so Ainsworth cites it; that is, Christ the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 27:1 «[A Psalm] of David. » 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? Ver. 1. _The Lord is my light_] That i...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord is my light_ My counsellor in my difficulties, and my comforter and deliverer in all my distresses. David's subjects called him _the light of Israel;_ but he owns he shone, as the moon doth,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord is my Light, the only Source of all spiritual light, AND MY SALVATION, He who saves him from the darkness of oppression and persecution; WHOM SHALL I FEAR? THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PSALM 27 THE ARGUMENT It is apparent from the body of this Psalm, that David was not yet fully delivered from the trouble which his enemies gave him, both by their slanders and other ways. But whether...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 27:1 David H1732 LORD H3068 light H216 salvation H3468 fear H3372 (H8799) LORD H3068 strength H4581 life...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘YHWH is my light and my salvation, Whom shall I fear? YHWH is the strength of my life, Of whom shall I be afraid? The Psalm opens with a declaration of the Psalmists confidence in God, and his re...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:1 These words claim a close relation to God. They profess an entire allegiance to God. They involve the corresponding fealty to God that, howsoever His light may come to the soul, it will a...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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)...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 27:1-14 begins with that song that we sang tonight. The LORD is my light [or Jehovah is my light] and my salvation: whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afra...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 12:9; Exodus 15:2; Hebrews 13:6; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 2:5

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