Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 27:3
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in (b) this [will] I [be] confident.
(b) That God will deliver me and give my faith the victory.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in (b) this [will] I [be] confident.
(b) That God will deliver me and give my faith the victory.
Verse Psalms 27:3. _THOUGH A HOST SHOULD ENCAMP AGAINST ME_] I am so confident of the Almighty's protection, that were I _alone_, and encompassed by a host, I would not fear. I am in the hand of God;...
THOUGH AN HOST - Though an “army;” that is, any army, or any number of men in battle array. The past interposition of God in similar times of trouble and danger was to him a sufficient security that h...
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...
IN THIS. in spite of this. In Psalms 27:1 we have the foundation of his confidence; in Psalms 27:2, the need of it; and in Psalms 27:3, the exercise of it....
The language may be figurative, but is more natural, if the writer was, like David, actually exposed to war's alarms. Cp. Psalms 3:6. _in this_ In the truth of Psalms 27:1. But it is better to render...
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....
IN THIS WILL I BE CONFIDENT— _Yet would I rely upon this;_ namely, upon the divine protection; which is described in the two next periods, in the figurative terms of being admitted _to dwell in the ho...
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...
_THOUGH AN HOST SHOULD ENCAMP AGAINST ME, MY HEART SHALL NOT FEAR: THOUGH WAR SHOULD RISE AGAINST ME, IN THIS WILL I BE CONFIDENT._ In this will I be confident - "in this" - i:e., even in such a seem...
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...
IN THIS] RV 'even then.'...
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...
THOUGH AN HOST. — Literally, _Though a camp should encamp._ IN THIS. — Either _in this circumstance_ or _in spite of this._ (Comp. Psalms 78:32.) The LXX. ἐν ταύτῃ, followed by μίαν in the next clause...
אִם ־תַּחֲנֶ֬ה עָלַ֨י ׀ מַחֲנֶה֮ לֹֽא ־יִירָ֪א...
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...
Draw. Sextus V reads tradas, "deliver," &c. But the present trahas, is more conformable to the original. (Calmet) --- Septuagint add, destroy me not, as the Hebrew might also signify. Suffer me not to...
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...
3._Though armies should encamp. _He infers from his former experience, as I have already mentioned, that whatever adversity may befall him, he ought to hope well, and to have no misgivings about the d...
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),...
THOUGH AN HOST SHOULD ENCAMP AGAINST ME,.... An host of the ungodly, as the Targum; though ever so many of them, even ten thousands of them, as in Psalms 3:6; should beset him on every side; MY HEART...
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this [will] I [be] confident. Ver. 3. _Though an host should encamp against me_] See Psalms 3:6...
_When my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh_ Greedy to devour me: aiming at no less than my utter destruction, and confident they should effect it; _they stumbled and fell_ Not, I smote them and the...
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...
Though an host, a whole army or camp of adversaries, SHOULD ENCAMP AGAINST ME, besieging him on all sides, MY HEART SHALL NOT FEAR; THOUGH WAR SHOULD RISE AGAINST ME, IN THIS, even in such a great ext...
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,...
In that which I have now said, that God is my light, &c., PSALMS 27:1, and in the experience of his favour and protection, PSALMS 27:2....
Psalms 27:3 army H4264 encamp H2583 (H8799) heart H3820 fear H3372 (H8799) war H4421 rise H6965 ...
Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident. In the light of YHWH's presence with him nothing could stand again...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_My heart shall not fear._ A STOUT HEART These are the words of a veteran, not of a raw recruit in the battle of life. A first disaster brings consternation; a ripened experience alone can take cala...
_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 Peter 3:14; 1 Samuel 28:15; 1 Samuel 28:16; 2 Chronicles 20:15;...
In this — That God is my light....