Psalms 27:9

"Hide not thy face from me;

Put not thy servant away in anger:

Thou hast been my help;

Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

When my father and my mother forsake me,

Then Jehovah will take me up."

"Put not thy servant away in anger" (Psalms 27:9). "David here views himself as God's servant, feeling that he could not live without the sunshine of God's love. The putting away of a servant in wrath would be an expression of the utmost disapproval."[12]

"When my father and my mother forsake me" (Psalms 27:10). The RSV falsely renders this, "For my father and my mother have forsaken me," perhaps with a view of supporting the denial of some that David wrote this psalm. Certainly there is no biblical record of any such thing ever having befallen David; and we do not think it ever happened. Can it be imagined that any parents would desert a son who became King?

Gaebelein affirmed that, "The Hebrews allows the translation of these words:

"For had my father and my mother forsaken me,

Then had Jehovah taken me up."[13]

Rawlinson also agreed with this. He wrote:

"We are not to gather from this that David's father and mother had forsaken him. They were probably dead at the time of the rebellion of Absalom. What David means is that even if forsaken by his nearest and dearest, he would not be forsaken by God. The expression is proverbial."[14]