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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 27:4

Reward. He speaks prophetically, (ver. 5.) or of spiritual enemies. (Berthier) --- "If they do not understand by kindness, make them understand by torments." (St. Jerome) --- He alludes to the calamities of the Babylonians, who had made such havoc, (Calmet) as well as to that of all who persecuted or rebelled against David. (Haydock) --- His zeal prompts him to approve of their chastisement. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 27:4. _ONE_ THING _HAVE I DESIRED_] If I am grown too old, and from that circumstance unable to serve my country, I shall then prefer a retirement to the tabernacle, there to serve God th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD - One main object; one thing that I have especially desired; one thing which has been the object of my constant wish. This ruling desire of his heart the psalmist...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 27 Holy Longings and Anticipations _ 1. Confidence in the Lord (Psalms 27:1)_ 2. Longings and anticipations (Psalms 27:4) 3. Earnest prayer in trial and trust in the Lord ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7 the poet is in grievous af...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DWELL, &C. Compare Psalms 23:6. BEAUTY. pleasantness, delightfulness. ENQUIRE. contemplate with admiration. TEMPLE. palace. Used generally of heaven, but also of the holy place (Greek. _naos)._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _One_thing _have I desired_ R.V., One thing have I asked; above all others as the climax of my petitions. _to behold_ The word implies a wondering and delighted _gazing_. _the beauty_ Or, _pleasantne...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    To be Jehovah's guest and live secure under His protection is the Psalmist's chief desire; and even now he confidently anticipates deliverance from his foes. Psalms 27:4 can hardly be understood liter...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD— i.e. The cheering countenance of God, whose presence was more conspicuously manifested in his temple....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 27 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust and Prayer in the Hour of Danger. ANALYSIS Part I., Two pentameter hexastichs: Stanza I., Psalms 27:1-3, That which Jehovah Is Now he Has Been in the Past, and Wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD, THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER; THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE, TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD, AND TO INQUIRE IN HIS TEMPLE._ One...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:4 beauty (g-31) Or 'graciousness,' and so in Psalms 90:17 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1 and Psalms 27:7, which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19, two independent poems have been combined. The...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE lord] as the guest of Jehovah: see Psalms 23:6. The figure suggests constant fellowship with God. BEAUTY] RM 'pleasantness,' the gracious aspect of the divine Host. To enqui...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY. — Literally, _to see into the favour_ — _i.e., to_ meditate on the graciousness of God. TO ENQUIRE ... — Literally, _to look into,_ either judicially or critically; here, “to _po...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אַחַ֤ת ׀ שָׁאַ֣לְתִּי מֵֽ אֵת ־יְהוָה֮ אֹותָ֪הּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 27:1 THE hypothesis that two originally distinct psalms or fragments are here blended has much in its favour. The rhythm and style of the latter half (Psalms 27:7) are strikingly unlike those o...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SONG OF FEARLESS TRUST IN GOD Psalms 27:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the exiled king, surrounded by unscrupulous foes, looked from his hiding-place beyond the Jordan to the Holy...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The real significance of this psalm is that of the experience of worship. It is somewhat strange that the remarkable contrast between the first (vv. Psa 27:1-6) and second (vv. Psa 27:7-14) parts has...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (c) One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    While we distinguish Christ here also, as our glorious Head, thus seeking, above all things, communion with the Father; and while we behold the blessed Jesus spending whole nights in prayer to God (Lu...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._One thing have I desired. _Some consider this as a prophecy of the perpetuity of David’s kingdom, on which not only his own personal happiness depended, but also the happiness of his whole people;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 27 we have two distinct parts, and, I apprehend, then in the last two Verses (Psa 27:21-22) the result for the mind of the saint as taught of God. The first part, Verses 1-6 (Psalms 27:1-6),...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ONE [THING] HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD,.... Not to be returned to Saul's court; nor to his own house and family; nor to have an affluence of worldly riches and honours; but to have constant abode it,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. Ver....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _One thing have I desired of the Lord_ It greatly encouraged David's confidence in God, that he was conscious to himself of an entire affection to him and his ordinances, and that he was in his elemen...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    One thing have I desired of the Lord, in the midst of all these threatening dangers, THAT WILL I SEEK AFTER, with a great desire: THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, the Tabernacle of His prese...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BELIEVER'S TRUST IN GOD AND HIS WORD. A psalm of David, written probably about the same time as the preceding one, picturing the state of mind of one who is persecuted 'Without cause and longs fo...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE BEAUTY: Or, the delight...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The Lord, who is the believer's light, is the strength of his life; not only by whom, but in whom he lives and moves. In God let us strengthen ourselves. The gracious presence of God, his power,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though I am exercised with many troubles, there is but one thing that I am very solicitous for, or desirous of, and that is not victory and triumphs over all mine enemies, assured peace and settlement...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 27:4 One H259 desired H7592 (H8804) LORD H3068 seek H1245 (H8762) dwell H3427 (H8800) house...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    One thing have I asked of YHWH, That will I seek after, That I may dwell in the house of YHWH, All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of YHWH, And to enquire in his temple. For he has only...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:4 Moral effects of communion with God. I. What is prayer? It is _conversing_with God. We converse with our fellow-men, and then we use familiar language, because they _are_our fellows. We c...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:1. _The Lord is my light and my salvation;_ First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true con...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my tight and my salvation; whom shall I fear?_ If a man has a light that can never go out, a sun which will never set, and a salvation which must always save, and God is all...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?_ If all your light comes from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, you need not be af...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?_ A sort of trembling seems to have been creeping over him, so h...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    David is in the darkness of sorrow, his enemies are many and mighty, and they make a dead set against him, and seek utterly to destroy him; but he finds his comfort where every true believer must ever...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Very much of the language of David used here, I trust, we can make our own. May the Spirit of God lead us to understand, by experience, what he has written. Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David glories in Jehovah's name and expresses triumphant faith. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God is the believer's light and strength by whom and in whom he lives. We should therefo...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    REFLECTIONS. This Psalm professes to have been written in mature age, and after David's head was lifted up above his enemies. The Lord was become his light and salvation; whom in future was he to fear...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _One thing have I desired of the Lord._ SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE IN WORSHIP Worship is a necessity to the spiritually awakened soul. Public worship was an urgent, pressing necessity in the psalmist’s ca...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord is my light and my salvation._ IMPLICIT TRUST This psalm was written by a man who was at the moment far down in the depths of spiritual conflict, and yet was holding a steady front against...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 27:1. In singing Psalms 27:1, God’s people have a way to express confidence in him and to respond to challenging life situations. The psalm de

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 27:4 DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. Compare Psalms 23:6. God’s BEAUTY is what the faithful

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION This psalm has been referred by some to the period of David’s waiting for the kingdom; by others, to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. _Hengstenberg_ says: “All attempts to find out any oc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of those which have been called "composite"; and certainly it falls into two parts which offer the strongest possible contrast the one to the other. Part 1. (Psalms 27:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 10:14; 1 Samuel 1:11; 1 Samuel 22:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Dwell. &c. — Have opportunity of constant attendance upon God. To behold — That there I may delight myself, in the contemplation of thy amiable and glorious majesty, and of thy infinite wisdom, holine...

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