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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
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion,.... This, with what follows, is given as a reason why the psalmist desired to dwell in the house of the Lord; because he considered it as a pavilion or booth, as the word (h) signifies in which he should be hid by the Lord, in times of trouble and distress, either through the heat of persecution, or of inward anxiety of mind, caused by...
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
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: If you live in God, it matters little whether you have trouble or delight, for you shall be hidden in his pavilion. Psa_27:5. In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. There is the pavilion of sovereignty; there is the tabernacle of sacrifice; there is the rock of immutability; and he who can get...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: “For”-and this is a reason for dismissing all our fear,-“in the time of trouble he shall hide me.” “I am so little that I may easily be hidden away by one so great as God is. ‘He shall hide me in his pavilion,’ in his own royal tent; and beneath the majesty of his sovereignty my soul shall find perfect security.” Psa_27:5. In the secret...
Charles H. Spurgeon
To behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: “Will not a father take care of his own children? Does not even the feeble hen cover her chickens with her wings, and will not God cover me with his feathers, and cause me to rest in safety under his wings? Ay, that he will.‘In the time of trouble he shall hide me’ away...
Charles H. Spurgeon
In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me: That is, in the holy of holies, into which no man might come. “There shall God hide me, — in the tabernacle of sacrifice, — behind the atonement of Christ.” Thus David had the two blessed protections of sovereignty and sacrifice. Psa_27:5. He shall set me up upon a rock. “His lofty power shall lift me above the turmoil, and his immutable fidelity,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. The pavilion was the many-colored tent of the king, embroidered with needlework, and richly furnished. It was always placed in the center of the encampment, so that, if there were a night attack, the enemy must first break through the ranks of the armed men before reaching the royal pavilion. So, the Christian is put into the very...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. If I dwell with God, he will hide me away in the pavilion of his sovereignty; and, so long as he is King, — and that will be for ever and ever:, — he will not let me perish. His sword and shield shall be stretched out for my defense. Then God has also a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. It is a blessed resolution, not always easily carried out, but still it...