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Psalm 27:10 KJV
Psalms · chapter 27 · verse 10
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.Psalm 27:10 · King James Version
What Psalm 27:10 means
David names the worst abandonment he can think of and then puts God after it. Take me up is a gathering-in word, the sort used for picking up something left behind. Notice that the verse does not promise the forsaking will not happen.
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Psalm 27:10 in context
8When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
9Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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Key words (Strong's)
- forsakeʻâzabto loosenH5800 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-14