Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 27:10
(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.
(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.
Verse Psalms 27:10. _WHEN MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER FORSAKE ME_] Or, more literally, "For my father and my mother have forsaken me; but the Lord hath gathered me up." My parents were my protectors _for...
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 love...
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...
TAKE ME UP. receive and protect me with His saints....
The tone of the Psalm changes abruptly to plaintive and anxious supplication. God seems to be on the point of hiding His face....
_When my father_&c. Or, as R.V., For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but &c. A proverbial expression. (Comp. - _bereavement_to my soul," Psalms 35:12). Though he is friendless and forsaken...
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...
_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 their death...
27:10 up. (a-15) Or 'For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but Jehovah hath gathered me.'...
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...
RV 'For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but,' etc....
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...
כִּי ־אָבִ֣י וְ אִמִּ֣י עֲזָב֑וּנִי וַֽ יהוָ֣
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...
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. Psalms...
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 opinion that...
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),...
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 ha...
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 t...
_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 distanc...
When my father and my mother forsake me, the very nearest earthly relatives abandoning him who seems doomed to destruction, Matthew 10:35, THEN THE LORD WILL TAKE ME UP, receiving the believer into Hi...
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...
WILL TAKE ME UP: _ Heb._ will gather me...
7-14 Wherever the believer is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. God calls us by his Spirit, by his word, by his worship, and by special providences, merciful and afflicting. When w...
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 $. Or his...
Psalms 27:10 father H1 mother H517 forsake H5800 (H8804) LORD H3068 care H622 (H8799) When -...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up._ PERISHABLE GOOD MEASURED AGAINST THE UNCHANGEABLE PORTION Change is earth’s perpetual motto. It is grown on her ever-varying...
_Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice._ A PRAYER OF DESIRE AND DEPENDENCE David here expresses-- I. his desire towards God. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, h...
_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)...
2 Samuel 16:11; 2 Timothy 4:16; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 49:15; John 16: