Psalms 27:9

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice!
Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8 When You said, “Seek My face,”
My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”

9 ^aDo not hide Your face from me;
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not leave me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.

10 ^aWhen my father and my mother forsake me,
Then the Lord will take care of me.

11 ^aTeach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Psalms 27:9

Hide not thy face - from me - As my face is towards thee wheresoever I am, so let thy face be turned towards me. In a Persian MS. poem entitled Shah we Gudda , "The King and the Beggar," I have found a remarkable couplet, most strangely and artificially involved, which expresses exactly the same sentiment one meaning of which is: -

Our face is towards Thee in all our ways;

Thy face is towards us in all our intentions.

Something similar, though not the same sentiment is in Hafiz, lib. i., gaz. v., cap. 2: -

How can we with the disciples turn our face towards the kaaba,

When our spiritual instructer turns his face to wards the wine-cellar?

I shall subjoin a higher authority than either: -

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I Peter 3:12.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous; And his ears to their supplication: And the face of the Lord is upon the workers of evil.

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