Psalms 27:13
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- KJV
- I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- WEB
- I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- ASV
- [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living.
- DARBY
- Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living !
- BLB
- Still I believed to look on the goodness of YHWH in the land of the living.
- ÅB
- Om jeg ikke hadde trodd at jeg skulle se Herrens godhet
i de levendes land—! - OTB
- Jeg er trygg på at jeg skal se Herrens godhet
I de levendes land. - B1930
- O, dersom jeg ikke trodde å skulle se Herrens godhet i de levendes land! -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
Read in contextPsalms 142:5
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Read in context2 Corinthians 4:8–14
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Read in contextPsalms 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Read in contextPsalms 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Read in contextPsalms 31:19
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Read in contextPsalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Read in contextPsalms 116:9–11
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
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