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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
Hide not thy face [far] from me,.... Yea, not at all from him; for the word "far" is not in the text: this is sometimes the case of the best of men, and was of the psalmist at times, and might be now, notwithstanding his strong expressions of faith and joy in the preceding verses; for frames are very changeable things; and this case is consistent with the everlasting and unchangeable love of God...
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
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. This is grand praying on the part of David; he pleads the past as a reason for mercy in the present: “Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.” It is a very bad thing to hire on past experiences alone; we want...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; I do not know why the translators put in that word “far.” It is printed in Italics, but it should not be there at all. “Hide not thy face from me at all, my Lord. I do not ask thee not to hide it far from me, but I pray thee not to hide it at all. Make no break in my sunlight. Let me always see thee; this is all I ask. hide not thy face from me.” Psa_27:9. Put not...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. There is a poor child, and his father and mother have both gone away and left him; but the Divine Father comes along, picks the child up, and clasps him to his bosom: “Then the Lord will take me up.” It is a wonderful thing to be taken up by God. A man prospers in...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: David has a jealous fear lest he should have provoked the Lord to hide himself from him, so he prays as one who is dependent upon his Heavenly Father’s smile, and cannot live without it. “Put not thy servant away in anger.” Psa_27:9. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. That is sweet...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: The sharpest trial a Christian can know is to be forsaken of his God. As the very pith of the agony of Christ upon the gross lay in his being deserted by his Father, so the extremity of a believer’s anguish is found when he also has to cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? “Send us any other trial that thou wilt, O Lord;...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” You know how masters do sometimes discharge their servants in anger; but what a gracious Master you and I have, beloved, or else he would have sent us adrift long ago! “Get you gone,” he would have said, “you disgrace my house, you mar my work, you do not perform your service well; begone!” But...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, hast been my help y leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake we, then the LORD will take me up... “They carried me when I was a child, and he will carry me now: ‘The Lord will take me up.’ When they steel their hearts against me, because I become a Christian, he will love me, and more than make up my loss of their love.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
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. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. He prayed, you see, and it looked a little unbelieving when he said, “Leave me not, neither forsake me.” But it was not so, for at once he confessed that he did not think that God...