Psalms 27:9
7 Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.
8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- KJV
- Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- WEB
- Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
- ASV
- Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- DARBY
- Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- BLB
- Do not hide Your face from me; do not stretch Your servant away in anger! You have been my help—do not leave me and do not forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- ÅB
- Skjul ikke ansiktet ditt for meg,
støt ikke din tjener bort i vrede!
Du har vært min hjelp.
Kast meg ikke bort og forlat meg ikke,
min frelses Gud! - OTB
- Skjul ikke Ditt ansikt for meg,
Avvis ikke Din tjener i vrede;
Du har vært min hjelp;
Forlat meg ikke og svikt meg ikke,
Min frelses Gud! - B1930
- Skjul ikke ditt åsyn for mig, bortstøt ikke i vrede din tjener! Min hjelp har du vært. Kast mig ikke bort og forlat mig ikke, min frelses Gud!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:17
Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
Read in contextPsalms 143:7
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
Read in contextPsalms 102:2
Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
Read in contextIsaiah 46:3–4
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:17–18
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
Read in contextHebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Read in contextPsalms 38:21–22
Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
Read in contextJeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
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