{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa027.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa027.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa027.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nlight--is a common figure for comfort.\nstrength--or, \"stronghold\"--affording security against all violence. The interrogations give greater vividness to the negation implied.\neat . . . my flesh-- (Job 19:22; Psa 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity.\nthey stumbled--\"they\" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed.\nIn the greatest dangers.\nin this--that is, then, in such extremity.\nThe secret of his confidence is his delight in communion with God (Psa 16:11; Psa 23:6), beholding the harmony of His perfections, and seeking His favor in His temple or palace; a term applicable to the tabernacle (compare Psa 5:7). There he is safe (Psa 31:21; Psa 61:5). The figure is changed in the last clause, but the sentiment is the same.\nhead be lifted up--I shall be placed beyond the reach of my enemies. Hence he avows his purpose of rendering joyful thank offerings.\nStill pressing need extorts prayer for help.\ncry with my voice--denotes earnestness. Other things equal, Christians in earnest pray audibly, even in secret.\nThe meaning is clear, though the construction in a literal translation is obscure. The English Version supplies the implied clause. To seek God's face is to seek His favor (Psa 105:4).\nHide not, &c.-- (Psa 4:6; Psa 22:24). Against rejection he pleads former mercy and love.\nIn the extremity of earthly destitution (Psa 31:11; Psa 38:11), God provides (compare Mat 25:35).\nthy way--of providence.\na plain path-- (Psa 26:12).\nenemies--literally, \"watchers for my fall\" (Psa 5:8).\nwill--literally, \"soul,\" \"desire\" (Psa 35:25).\nenemies--literally, \"oppressors.\" Falsehood aids cruelty against him.\nbreathe out--as being filled with it (Act 9:1).\nThe strong emotion is indicated by the incomplete sentence, for which the English Version supplies a proper clause; or, omitting that, and rendering, \"yet I believed,\" &c., the contrast of his faith and his danger is expressed.\nto see--is to experience (Psa 22:17).\nWait, &c.--in confident expectation. The last clause is, literally, \"and wait,\" &c., as if expecting new measures of help.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 27","type":"page"}