Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 27:2
2. eat . . . my flesh— (Job 19:22; Psalms 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity. they stumbled—"they" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed. read more
诗篇 27:2-3 Cunpss
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 27:3
3. In the greatest dangers. in this—that is, then, in such extremity. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 27:1-3
1. Confidence in spite of danger 27:1-3 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 27:1-14
Psalms 27Many of the psalms begin with a lament and end in trust. This one begins with trust, then sinks into a lament, and finally rises again to confidence in God. Themes in common with the preceding psalm include God’s tabernacle, dependence on the Lord, and hope in divine deliverance. This may be a royal psalm with features of a lament psalm. [Note: J. H. Eaton, Psalms, pp. 85-86; idem, Kingship and the Psalms, pp. 39-40.] read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 27:2-3
In the past, when David’s enemies advanced against him, they stumbled and fell because God defended him. Therefore, David said that in the future he would not fear if an entire army were to pitch camp and prepare to attack him. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 27:1-14
This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1-6 and Psalms 27:7-14, which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19, two independent poems have been combined. The one breathes a spirit of fearless and triumphant confidence in the face of hostile armies, while the other, though trustful, is the prayer of one in deep distress, orphaned and beset by false accusers. The warlike tone of Psalms 27:1-6 is in favour of ascribing them to David, and Psalms... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 27:2
(2) When . . .—Literally, In the coming against me (of) the wicked to devour my flesh—my enemies and my foes to me—themselves stumbled and fell. Job 19:22 would allow us to understand those who eat up flesh, as a figure for calumniators and detractors; but the context marks out the situation so clearly as that of a warrior, that we rather take it as a general metaphor for savage and violent attacks. To me, is an emphatic repetition—my enemies, mine. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 27:3
(3) Though an host.—Literally, Though a camp should encamp.In this.—Either in this circumstance or in spite of this. (Comp. Psalms 78:32.) The LXX. ἐν ταύτῃ, followed by μίαν in the next clause, seems to refer it to the hope about to be expressed. The Rabbinical commentators (e.g., Aben Ezra and Rashi) refer back to the beginning of the psalm. “In this”—viz., that Jehovah is my light—“do I trust.” Rosenmiiller refers it to “the battle” just mentioned, in ipsa pugna. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 27:1-14
Psalms 27:0 India was still heaving with the ground-swell of the terrible Mutiny of 1857, when the wife of Sir John Lawrence was called home to her children in England, and had to leave her husband, who could not quit his post, surrounded by the smouldering embers which might, at any moment, rekindle into flame, and worn to exhaustion with the anxiety and labour which did so much for the preservation of the Indian Empire. She thus writes: 'When the last morning of separation, Jan. 6, 1858,... read more
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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 27:3
Psalms 27:3. In this will I be confident— Yet would I rely upon this; namely, upon the divine protection; which is described in the two next periods, in the figurative terms of being admitted to dwell in the house of the Lord, where no enemy could approach to hurt him. See Psalms 31:21; Psa 91:1 and Green. read more