Psalms 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Psalms 27:13 in other translations
| BSB | Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. |
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| WEB | I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. |
| ASV | I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living. |
| YLT | I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living! |
| DARBY | Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living...! |
| BBE | I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living. |
| Webster | I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. |
What does Psalms 27:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 27:7-14
Wherever the believer is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. God calls us by his Spirit, by his word, by his worship, and by special providences, merciful and afflicting. When we are foolishly making court to lying vanities, God is, in love to us, calling us to seek our own mercies in him. The call is general, "Seek ye my face;" but we must apply it to ourselves, "I will seek it." The word does us…
Psalms 27:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 27:13
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
- Psalms 142:5
I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
- 2 Corinthians 4:8-14
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. …
- Psalms 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
- Psalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- Psalms 116:9-11
I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
- Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
- 2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
- Job 28:13
Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
- Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
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Context
- Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
- Psalms 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
- Psalms 27:14
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Psalms 27:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hubiera yo desmayado, si no creyese que tengo de ver la bondad de Jehová en la tierra de los vivientes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Si je n’avais pas eu la confiance que je verrais la bonté de l’ Éternel dans la terre des vivants…! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn ich nicht geglaubt hätte, das Gute Jehovas zu schauen im Lande der Lebendigen! |