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Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 27:13

Psalms 27:13 The text puts before us: I. A future experience embraced or anticipated by faith. It indicates the sustaining power of such anticipation. (1) The goodness of God is His kindness. Of the kindness of God we may remark: ( a ) it is natural; ( b ) it is infinite; ( c ) it is eternal; ( d ) it is perfect in quality; ( e ) it is the goodness which creates goodness. (2) The knowledge David had of the goodness of God was derived from three sources: ( a ) the history of its... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 27:14

Psalms 27:14 No state is more dreary than that of the repentant sinner when first he understands where he is and begins to turn his thoughts towards the Great Master whom He has offended. A man finds that he has a great work to do, and does not know how to do it, or even what it is; and his impatience and restlessness are as great as his conscious ignorance; indeed, he is restless because he is ignorant. There is great danger of his taking wrong steps, inasmuch as he is anxious to move and does... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 27:1-14

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? Past deliverances should always inspire hopes for the future. In the time of triumph and of joy he made religion his chief delight. “One thing have I desired of the Lord.” That voice, “one thing is needful,” should often sound in our ears. David in all his exile had preserved a confidence in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:1-14

Psalms 27:1-14The Lord is my light and my salvation. Implicit trustThis 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 his troubles, after all. He prays so passionately, that we should deem him weak even to cowardice, if it were not for the fact that he praises so jubilantly, and lifts his head with a most unsubdued ring in his voice. The psalm is like a summer cloud just before a storm, in that it... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:7-14

Psalms 27:7-14Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice.A prayer of desire and dependenceDavid here expresses--I. his desire towards God. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer.1. He humbly bespeaks, because he firmly believes he shall have, a gracious audience (verse7).2. He takes hold of the kind invitation God had given him to this duty (Psalms 27:8).(1) The true nature of religious worship. Seeking the face of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:13

Psalms 27:13I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. The goodness of God in the land of the livingThe words “I had fainted” are not in the original. The sentence is a broken one, such as one utters under strong emotion, suggesting possibilities, but leaving the hearer or reader to supply them for himself. “O had I not believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living”--and then he breaks off, and we are left to imagine what... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:14

Psalms 27:14Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. The Christian’s strengthThe Church of God has often been in a low, languishing, and, to all human appearance, in a desperate condition; yet one thing, as Solomon says, is set against another, and it has been at such times that His people have realized most fully the comforts of His providence and gracious presence. These stars shine brightest in dark winter nights. How wonderful have... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:13

Psalms 27:13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Ver. 13. I had fainted, unless I had believed ] Saved he was then by his faith, which drank to him as it were in a cup of Nepenthes, and fetched him again when ready to swoon and sink. See Psalms 119:92 . The word rendered unless here is (as the Masorites note) one of the fifteen Scripture words, that were extraordinarily pointed by the men of the great synagogue ( Lule habet puncta... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:14

Psa 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Ver. 14. Wait on the Lord ] Expecta, expecta. See how earnest good David is with himself and others; for he knew men’s dulness, and the difficulty of the duty. Religious men find it more easy to bear evil than to wait till the promised good he enjoyed; Hebrews 10:36 , the spoiling of their goods required patience; but this more than ordinary. Let our distance from God, our dependence... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 27:13

fainted: Psalms 42:5, Psalms 56:3, Psalms 116:9-1 Kings :, 2 Corinthians 4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:8-2 Chronicles :, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ephesians 2:8 in the: Psalms 52:5, Psalms 56:13, Psalms 142:5, Job 33:30, Isaiah 38:11, Isaiah 38:19, Jeremiah 11:19, Ezekiel 26:20 Reciprocal: Judges 13:23 - he have showed Psalms 40:1 - I waited Psalms 62:5 - wait Psalms 119:50 - This Psalms 119:92 - I should Isaiah 33:2 - be gracious Isaiah 40:31 - not faint Isaiah 50:10 - let Jeremiah 45:3 - I fainted... read more

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 27:13

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 27:14

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 27:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:1-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:7-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:13

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 27:14

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 27:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 27:13

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