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 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
• Ps 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
• Isa 46:3–4Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
• Ps 102:2Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
• 2 Tim 4:17–18Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Heb 13:5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
• Jer 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Ps 38:21–22Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
• Ps 24:5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
• Ps 71:17–18O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
• Ps 13:1How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
• 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
• 1 Chr 28:9And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
• Ps 88:1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
• Isa 50:1Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
• Ps 119:121I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
• Ps 51:11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
• Ps 71:5–6For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
• Ps 44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
• 2 Cor 1:9–10But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
• Isa 59:2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

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