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 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
• Ps 143:7Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
• Isa 46:3–4“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
• Ps 102:2Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
• 2 Tim 4:17–18But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Heb 13:5Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• Jer 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Ps 38:21–22Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
• Ps 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
• Ps 71:17–18God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
• Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
• 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Ps 88:1A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
• Isa 50:1Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
• Ps 119:121I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
• Ps 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.
• Ps 71:5–6For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
• Ps 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
• 2 Cor 1:9–10Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
• Isa 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

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