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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
And now shall mine head be lifted up,.... That is, when brought into the house of the Lord, hid in the secret of his tabernacle, and set upon the rock Christ; by this phrase he means, either that he should be then restored to his former happy and comfortable condition, as it is used in Genesis 40:13; or that he should overcome all his enemies, and triumph over them, being exalted, as he adds,...
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
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. David always comes back to his God; nay, he does not go away from him. Trusting him, praising him, adoring him, — this is the very life of this Psalm, as it ought to be of our whole life. The psalmist says, “I...
Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall set me up upon a rock. What perfect security the child of God has; first, in the pavilion of sovereignty; next, in the secrecy of sacrifice; and thirdly, on the rock of immutability! “He shall set me up upon a rock.” Psa_27:6. 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...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: “They may surround me, and threaten me, but they cannot hurt me, for I am living with my God, abiding like a child in my Father’s house.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: He has not done praising before he begins to pray. We are scarcely out of one trouble before we enter into another. This is what keeps Christian people alive, because, escaping from one trial, they begin to praise, and falling into another, they...
Charles H. Spurgeon
“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. As David’s trust was in his Lord, all his praise was to his Lord; and where we place our confidence, there let us also display our gratitude. If we trust in men, it is not surprising if we worship and praise men;...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. This is a blessed resolution; oh, that you and I would carry it out more and more! David says twice that he will sing the Lord’s praises: “I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.” Come, all ye who...
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...