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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 27 [A Psalm] of David. The Septuagint interpreters add to this title, "before he was anointed". David was anointed three times, first when a youth in his father's house; but this psalm could not be written before that time, because he had not had then any experience of war, nor could be in any immediate apprehension of it, as here suggested; he was anointed a second time,...
John Gill
Wait on the Lord,.... This, with what follows, is spoken by the psalmist either to himself or to others, or it may be to both, upon the rich experience he declares in Psalms 27:13: it becomes believers to wait on the Lord for the common blessings of life, for even the eyes of all wait upon him for their daily food; and for the light of his countenance, when it is withdrawn from them, for he will...
Matthew Henry
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him (2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17) and his people thereupon resolved he should never venture...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. He is worth waiting upon. God help us all to wait on him, for his dear name’s sake! Amen.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: I think I hear David say this short sentence to each one in this great assembly tonight, “Wait on the Lord.” Psa_27:14. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, David says it from his own experience, and thus, as it were, puts his name and seal at the end of the Psalm: “Wait, I say,”- Psa_27:14. On the LORD. Everyone who has ever proved the power of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
The goodness of the LORD is the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Why did David put that little sentence in and say, “Wait, I say”? It is a repetition, but not a vain one, for it is his own personal testimony, as much as if he had said, “I have waited on the Lord, and I have found that he helps me, so, wait, I...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Wait on no one else; wait only on him, and then you shall not be discouraged or faint-hearted; wherefore, “wait, I say, on the Lord.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Here is a man of God giving us the benefit of his own experience; he waited upon God, and now he bids us do the same, that we may be blessed as he was. At our prayer-meeting before we came in here, one dear friend thanked the Lord that, for more than sixty years, he had been enabled to rest upon the divine promises, and he...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 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. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say on the...