Psalms 27:9

David pleads that God would not hide His face, turn him away, abandon, or forsake him, resting on God as his help and salvation. It expresses dependence on God's steadfast presence.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 69:17Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
• Ps 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
• Isa 46:3–4“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
• Ps 102:2Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
• 2 Tim 4:17–18But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
• Heb 13:5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
• Jer 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
• Ps 38:21–22Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
• Ps 24:5He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.
• Ps 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
• Ps 13:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
• 1 Sam 7:12Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
• 1 Chr 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• Ps 88:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
• Isa 50:1This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
• Ps 119:121I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.
• Ps 51:11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
• Ps 71:5–6For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
• Ps 44:24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
• 2 Cor 1:9–10Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
• Isa 59:2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.

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