Proverbia 27:9

Nova Vulgata

Ne avertas faciem tuam a me, ne declines in ira a servo tuo. Adiutor meus es tu, ne me reicias neque derelinquas me, Deus salutis meae.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Numquid Deus audiet clamorem ejus, cum venerit super eum angustia ?

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedic h�reditati tu�;
et rege eos, et extolle illos usque in �ternum.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hide: Psalms 13:1, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 69:17, Psalms 102:2, Psalms 143:7, Isaiah 59:2

put: Psalms 51:11, Isaiah 50:1

thou: Psalms 71:5, Psalms 71:6, Psalms 71:17, Psalms 71:18, 1 Samuel 7:12, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:4, 2 Corinthians 1:9, 2 Corinthians 1:10, 2 Timothy 4:17, 2 Timothy 4:18

leave: Psalms 38:21, Psalms 119:121, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Jeremiah 32:40, Hebrews 13:5

O God: Psalms 24:5, Psalms 38:21, Psalms 38:22, Psalms 88:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:17 - hide my face Judges 6:13 - forsaken us 1 Chronicles 16:11 - seek his 2 Chronicles 32:31 - left him Job 34:29 - when he hideth Psalms 10:1 - hidest Psalms 80:19 - cause Isaiah 54:8 - I hid Jeremiah 14:9 - leave Mark 15:34 - why Hebrews 13:6 - The Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hide not thy face [far] from me,.... Yea, not at all from him; for the word "far" is not in the text: this is sometimes the case of the best of men, and was of the psalmist at times, and might be now, notwithstanding his strong expressions of faith and joy in the preceding verses; for frames are very changeable things; and this case is consistent with the everlasting and unchangeable love of God to his people; though they are ready to impute it to wrath and anger, and is what is very cutting and grievous to them; and therefore deprecate it as the psalmist does here,

put not thy servant away in anger; either cast him not away from thy presence, as being angry with him, though there is just reason for it; or suffer him not to go away angry, fretting and murmuring: he makes mention of his relation to God as a servant, as he was; not only by creation as a man, and by his office as a king, but by efficacious grace as a converted man; and this only as descriptive of himself, and as acknowledging his dependence on the Lord, and his obligation to him; but not as a reason why he should be regarded by him, for he knew he was but an unprofitable servant;

thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me: which request, as the rest, he might put up in faith; for God will not leave his people destitute of his presence finally and totally; nor to themselves and the corruptions of their hearts, nor to the temptations of Satan; nor will he forsake the work of his hands, the work of grace upon their hearts; or so forsake them as that they shall perish: and that the Lord would not leave nor forsake him in such sense, the psalmist had reason to conclude; since he had been his help in times past, a present help in time of trouble; and his arm was not shortened, his power was the same to help as ever, and so were his inclination and will; since he could also call unto him, and upon him, as follows:

O God of my salvation; the author both of his temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation; and what might he not hope for from him? salvation includes all blessings, both for soul and body, for time and eternity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hide not thy face far from me - Compare the notes at Psalms 4:6. To “hide the face” is to turn it away with displeasure, as if we would not look on one who has offended us. The favor of God is often expressed by “lifting the light of his countenance” upon anyone - looking complacently or “pleasedly” upon him. The reverse of this is expressed by hiding the face, or by turning it away. The word “far” introduced by the translators does not aid the sense of the passage.

Put not thy servant away in anger - Do not turn me off, or put me away in displeasure. We turn one away, or do not admit him into our presence, with whom we are displeased. The psalmist prayed that he might have free access to God as a Friend.

Thou hast been my help - In days that are past. This he urges as a reason why God should still befriend him. The fact that He had shown mercy to him, that He had treated him as a friend, is urged as a reason why He should now hear his prayers, and show him mercy.

Leave me not - Do not abandon me. This is still a proper ground of pleading with God. We may refer to all His former mercies toward us; we may make mention of those mercies as a reason why He should now interpose and save us. We may, so to speak, “remind” him of His former favors and friendship, and may plead with Him that He will complete what He has begun, and that, having once admitted us to His favor, He will never leave or forsake us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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 [Persic] 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: -

[Persic]

[Persic]

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:-

[Arabic]

[Arabic]

How can we with the disciples turn our face towards

the kaaba,

When our spiritual instructer turns his face towards

the wine-cellar?

I shall subjoin a higher authority than either: -

Ὁτι οφθαλμοι Κυριου επι δικαιους,

Και ωτα αυτου εις δεησις αυτων·

Προσωπον δε Κυριου επι ποιουντας κακα.

1 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.