Psalms 27:11-14

11 ¹Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a ²level path Because of my foes.

12 Do not deliver me over to the ³desire of my adversaries, For ⁴false witnesses have risen against me, And such as ⁵breathe out violence.

13 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the ⁶goodness of the LORD In the ⁷land of the living.

14 ⁸Wait for the LORD; Be ⁹strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.

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Psalms 27:11-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 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, after the death of Saul at Hebron, by the men of Judah; before that time indeed he had been harassed by Saul, and distressed by the Amalekites, and was driven from the public worship of God, to which he has a respect, Ps 27:4; and he was a third time anointed, by the elders of Israel, king over all Israel; and between the death of Saul and this unction there was a war between the house of David and the house of Saul; but what is referred to is not certain, nor is it of moment, since these words are neither in the Hebrew text, nor in the Chaldee paraphrase. Theodoret is of opinion this psalm was written by David when he fled from Saul, and came to Ahimelech the priest.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

1. Psalms 25:4; Psalms 86:11
2. Psalms 5:8; Psalms 26:12
3. Psalms 41:2
4. Deuteronomy 19:18; Psalms 35:11; Matthew 26:60
5. Acts 9:1
6. Psalms 31:19
7. Job 28:13; Psalms 52:5; Psalms 116:9; Psalms 142:5; Isaiah 38:11; Jeremiah 11:19; Ezekiel 26:20
8. Psalms 25:3; Psalms 37:34; Psalms 40:1; Psalms 62:5; Psalms 130:5; Proverbs 20:22; Isaiah 25:9
9. Psalms 31:24

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "those who lie in wait for me"
[b]. Lit "soul"
[c]. Or "Surely I believed"