Psalms 27:8
What meaning of the psalms 27:8 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 27:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek."
What does Psalms 27:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek."
Verse Psalms 27:8. WHEN THOU SAIDST, _SEEK YE MY FACE_] How much labour and skill have been employed to make sense of this verse as it stands in our translation! The original words are the following,...
WHEN THOU SAIDST, SEEK YE MY FACE ... - Margin, “My heart said unto thee, Let my face seek thy face.” The literal translation would be: “To Thee hath said my heart, Seek ye my face; thy face, O Lord,...
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 (Psalms 27:7) Psa...
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...
WHEN, &C.: or, "To thee, my heart, He hath said, 'Seek thou My face'; Thy face,. Jehovah, will. seek"....
The tone of the Psalm changes abruptly to plaintive and anxious supplication. God seems to be on the point of hiding His face....
WHEN THOU SAIDST, SEEK YE MY FACE, &C.— The words, _when thou saidst_ are not in the original. Bishop Hare inserts the word אלהים _elohim,_ and reads it thus, _To thee, O my soul, God said, Seek ye my...
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 THOU SAIDST, SEEK YE MY FACE; MY HEART SAID UNTO THEE, THY FACE, LORD, WILL I SEEK._ My heart said unto thee - rather, 'my heart saith unto thee' (i:e., is continually, with silent speech, remi...
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...
WHEN THOU SAIDST. — The margin rightly rejects these words, and restores the order of the Hebrew; but the text of the Authorised Version really gives its meaning. The thought seems borrowed from seek...
לְךָ֤ ׀ אָמַ֣ר לִ֭בִּי בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ פָנָ֑י אֶת ־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְהוָ֣ה אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃...
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 Hol...
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...
[When thou saidst], (e) Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. (e) He grounds on God's promise and shows that he is most willing to obey his commandment....
_People; ( hoz lamu) instead of which the Hebrew has lamo, " their strength;" though the people of God had not been mentioned. St. Jerome translates, "the Lord is my strength." Houbigant shews that th...
These also are precious things, if considered with an eye to Christ: but, without him, as was said by Joseph to the sons of Israel, ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. Genesis 4...
8._My heart said to thee. _The change of person in the verbs has occasioned a variety of interpretations of this verse. But whoever closely examines David’s design will perceive that the text runs per...
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 THOU SAIDST], SEEK YE MY FACE,.... To seek the face of the Lord is to attend his house and ordinances, where he grants his presence; and with this view to enjoy his gracious presence, and the li...
Psalms 27:8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Ver. 8. _When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, &c._] Or, "My heart said unto thee" (or, for thee, a...
_When thou saidst_ Either by thy word commanding or inviting me so to do; or, by thy Spirit directing and inclining me; _Seek ye my face_ Seek my presence, and favour, and help, by fervent, faithful p...
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...
WHEN THOU SAIDST, SEEK YE MY FACE; MY HEART SAID UNTO THEE: Or, my heart said unto thee, let my face seek thy face, etc....
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...
WHEN THOU SAIDST; either by thy word, commanding and inviting me so to do; or by thy Spirit, directing and inclining me to it. SEEK YE MY FACE, i.e. seek my presence, and favour, and help, by fervent...
Psalms 27:8 Seek H1245 (H8761) face H6440 heart H3820 said H559 (H8804) face H6440 LORD H3068 seek H1245 (H8762) Seek - Psalms 24:6, Psalms 105:4; Isaiah 45:19, Isaiah 55:6-7;...
To (or ‘towards') you my heart said, “Seek you my face”, It is tempting here to see these words as the words of YHWH interspersed with the Psalmist's own words, or put into the Psalmist's mouth, so...
WHEN THOU Or, My heart said unto thee, Let my face seek thy face....
Psalms 27:8 The text divides itself into two parts. We have (1) God's address to man; (2) man's reply to God. I. God's address to man: "Thou saidst, Seek ye My face." (1) Here we have the origin of a...
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...
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...
_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 describes a faithful person attac...
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 o...
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)...
Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 45:19; Isaiah 55:6; Isaiah 55:7; Jeremiah 29:12; Jeremiah 29:13; Psalms 105:4; Psalms 119:58; Psalms 24:6; Psalms 63:1;...