Psalms 27:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Psalms 27:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 105:4
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
Jeremiah 29:12-13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. …
Isaiah 55:6-7
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
Psalms 119:58
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Psalms 63:1-2
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; …

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-14)

David in these verses expresses, I. His desire towards God, in many petitions. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. 1. He humbly bespeaks, because he firmly believes he shall have, a gracious audience: “ Hear, O Lord, when I cry, not only with my heart, but, as one in earnest, with my voice too.” He bespeaks also…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. The meaning is clear, though the construction in a literal translation is obscure. The English Version supplies the implied clause. To seek God’s face is to seek His favor (Psa 105:4).