--- title: "Psalms 27 - Study King James Bible with the church pulpit commentary" description: "Read Psalms 27 with the church pulpit commentary commentary. 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine e" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/the-church-pulpit-commentary/psalms/27" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/27)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/27)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/27) Audio 1 The LORD *is* my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD *is* the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, *even* mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.* 3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this *will* I *be* confident. 4 One *thing* have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.* 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. 6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.* 7 Hear, O LORD, *when* I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 *When thou saidst*, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.* 9 Hide 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. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.* 11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.** 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 13 *I had fainted*, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. [Psalms 26](/study/psalms/26) [Psalms 28](/study/psalms/28) ## Commentary To verse 1 *‘DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA’* ‘The Lord is my light.’ [Psalms 27:1](/kjv/psalms/27/1) ‘The Lord is my light.’ Here only does David, in all his psalms, so speak of the Lord; and, indeed, this exact expression only occurs twice in the Old Testament. ‘When I sit in darkness,’ says the prophet Micah, ‘the Lord shall be a light unto me.’ **I. ‘The Lord is my light.’**—David’s was a life of great vicissitudes. His temperament, too, was of a kind which alternates between periods of great exhilaration and great depression. The Lord was his light, the light by which he saw things as they really were when the mists of passion and of self-love would fain have hidden them. **II. Jesus Christ was ‘the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.’**—He is light because He is what He is: absolute perfection in respect of intellectual truths; absolute perfection in respect of moral beauty. Hence those momentous words, ‘I am the Light of the world,’ and hence that confession of the Christian creed, ‘God of God, Light of Light.’ **III. ‘The Lord is my light.’**—Here is a motto for the Church of Christ. In the darkest time of the Church the darkness has never been universal, the sap never dried up; the tradition of light and warmth has been handed on to happier times, when her members could again say with something like truthful accord, ‘The Lord is my light.’ **IV. Here, too, is a motto for Christian education.**—One kind of education only is safe, one only deserves the name, and its governing principle is from age to age, ‘The Lord is my light.’ **V. 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