Psalms 27:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֬ר פָּנֶ֨יךָ ׀ מִמֶּנִּי֮ אַֽל־תַּט־בְּאַ֗ף עַ֫בְדֶּ֥ךָ עֶזְרָתִ֥י הָיִ֑יתָ אַֽל־תִּטְּשֵׁ֥נִי וְאַל־תַּֽ֝עַזְבֵ֗נִי אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׁעִֽי׃

Transliteration

ʾal-tastēr pāneykā ׀ mimmennî ʾal-taṭ-bə-ʾap ʿabdekā ʿezrātî hāyîtā ʾal-tiṭṭəšēnî wə-ʾal-taʿazbēnî ʾĕlōhê yišʿî

Grammar Details

• *ʾal*: negative particle with jussive - do not
• *tastēr*: hiphil jussive 2nd person masculine singular - hide
• *pāneykā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your face
• *mimmennî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - from me
• *taṭ*: hiphil jussive 2nd person masculine singular - turn away
• *bə-ʾap*: preposition + noun masculine singular - in anger
• *ʿabdekā*: noun masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servant
• *ʿezrātî*: noun feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my help
• *hāyîtā*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have been
• *tiṭṭəšēnî*: qal jussive 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - forsake me
• *wə-ʾal*: conjunction + negative particle - and do not
• *taʿazbēnî*: qal jussive 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - abandon me
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun masculine plural construct - God of
• *yišʿî*: noun masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my salvation

Word Meanings

• *tastēr*: hide/conceal
• *pāneykā*: your face/presence/person
• *taṭ*: turn away/incline/stretch out
• *ʾap*: anger/nose/wrath
• *ʿabdekā*: your servant/slave
• *ʿezrātî*: my help/assistance/support
• *hāyîtā*: you have been/existed/become
• *tiṭṭəšēnî*: forsake me/abandon me/leave me
• *taʿazbēnî*: abandon me/leave me/forsake me
• *ʾĕlōhê*: God of
• *yišʿî*: my salvation/deliverance/rescue

Referenced Verses

• Ps 69:17 : 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily.
• Ps 102:2 : 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
• Ps 143:7 : 7 Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; My spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
• Ps 24:5 : 5 He shall receive a blessing from Jehovah, And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
• Ps 38:21-22 : 21 Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me. 22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
• Ps 44:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
• Ps 51:11 : 11 Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy Spirit from me.
• Ps 71:5-6 : 5 For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my trust from my youth. 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.
• Ps 71:17-18 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
• Ps 88:1 : 1 A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.
• Ps 119:121 : 121 AYIN. I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to mine oppressors.
• 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
• Ps 13:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
• Isa 59:2 : 2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
• Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• 2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• 2 Tim 4:17-18 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18 {G2532} The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Heb 13:5 : 5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
• Isa 46:3-4 : 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
• Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.