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Psalms 27:14

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 27:14 To wait for the LORD is to look to him with dependence and trust, not passivity. This enables one to be strong and courageous (see Deuteronomy 31:6).

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See also Psalms 27:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 27:14. _WAIT ON THE LORD_] All ye who are in distress, _wait on_ _the Lord_. Take me for an example. I waited on him, and _he_ _strengthened my heart_; wait ye on him, and he _will stren...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WAIT ON THE LORD - This is the sum of all the instruction in the psalm; the main lesson which the psalm is designed to convey. The object is to induce others, from the experience of the psalmist, to t...

  • 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

    WAIT. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The tone of the Psalm changes abruptly to plaintive and anxious supplication. God seems to be on the point of hiding His face....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist addresses himself, and encourages himself to patience. His faith rebukes his faintness. _Be of good courage_ R.V., Be strong, and let thine heart take courage. Cp. Psalms 31:24; Deuterono...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WAIT ON THE LORD— The Psalmist here admonishes any person who shall fall into such straits as his, to learn by his example not to be impatient, or to despond, much less despair of relief, if God do no...

  • 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

    _I HAD FAINTED, UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING._ Conclusion-summing up the psalm. The goodness of the Lord is the antidote to fear amidst troubles; onl...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:14 courage. (c-11) Or 'he will strengthen thy heart.'...

  • 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...

  • 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

    HE SHALL STRENGTHEN. — Better, _let thy heart be strong._ WAIT... — Heb., _wait for Jehovah, and wait for Jehovah._...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קַוֵּ֗ה אֶל ־יְה֫וָ֥ה חֲ֭זַק וְ יַאֲמֵ֣ץ לִבּ

  • 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

    (i) Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. (i) He exhorts himself to depend on the Lord seeing he never failed in his promises....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    PSALM XXVII. (AD TE DOMINE CLAMABO.) David's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Nothing can be more blessed than viewing Christ in the promises, and pleading for the fulfillment and accomplishment of them, in and for him. Isaiah 40:31 REFLECTIONS READER, how beautiful is that sc...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._Wait thou on Jehovah. _It may be doubted whether David, having in the preceding verses spoken of himself, here addresses his discourse to others, and exhorts them by his own example to fortitude a...

  • 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

    WAIT ON THE LORD,.... This, with what follows, is spoken by the psalmist either to himself or to others, or it may be to both, upon the rich experience he declares in Psalms 27:13: it becomes believer...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Ver. 14. _Wait on the Lord_] _Expecta, expecta._ See how earnest good David is with himself and ot...

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

    _Wait on the Lord_ O my soul, to which some think he now turns his speech: or rather, O reader, whosoever thou art, wait on God by faith and prayer, and in an humble resignation to his will. Hebrew, י...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wait on the Lord, firmly trusting in the revelation of His mercy; BE OF GOOD COURAGE, strong of heart, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART, rather, let thy heart show itself mighty. WAIT, I SAY, ON TH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-14 Wherever the believer is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. God calls us by his Spirit, by his word, by his worship, and by special providences, merciful and afflicting. When w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WAIT ON THE LORD, O my soul; to which he now turneth his speech; as he frequently doth in this book. HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART; he will uphold thee, and keep thee from fainting and sinking under...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 27:14 Wait H6960 (H8761) LORD H3068 courage H2388 (H8798) strengthen H553 (H8686) heart H3820 Wait...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Wait for YHWH, be strong, And let you heart take courage. Yes, wait you for YHWH. Like the first section, the second section ends with a repetition, but this time it is a repetition of the need to w...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 27:14 I. How we are to wait on God. (1) We are to wait on God in His ordinances. (2) We are to wait on God in His ordinances with faith and perseverance. II. They that wait on the Lord shall...

  • 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

    _Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice._ A PRAYER OF DESIRE AND DEPENDENCE David here expresses-- I. his desire towards God. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, h...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord._ THE CHRISTIAN’S STRENGTH The Church of God has often been in a low, languishing, and, to all hum...

  • 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 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 Corinthians 16:13; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Timothy 4:5;...

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