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Psalm 27

Psa. 27:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I had fainted, unless
luwle' (Hebrew #3884)
from 3863 and 3808; if not
KJV usage: except, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.
Pronounce: loo-lay'
Origin: or luwley {loo lay'}
I had believed
'aman (Hebrew #539)
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; once (Isa. 30:21; interchangeable with 541) to go to the right hand
KJV usage: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Pronounce: aw-man'
Origin: a primitive root
to see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
s the goodness
tuwb (Hebrew #2898)
good (as a noun), in the widest sense, especially goodness (superlative concretely, the best), beauty, gladness, welfare
KJV usage: fair, gladness, good(-ness, thing, -s), joy, go well with.
Pronounce: toob
Origin: from 2895
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
in the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
of the living
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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fainted.
Psa. 42:5• 5Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance. (Psa. 42:5)
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Psa. 56:3• 3In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee. (Psa. 56:3)
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Psa. 116:9‑11• 9I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
10I believed, therefore have I spoken. As for me, I was greatly afflicted.
11I said in my haste, All men are liars.
(Psa. 116:9‑11)
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2 Cor. 4:1,8‑14,16• 1Therefore, having this ministry, as we have had mercy shewn us, we faint not.
8every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
9persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;
11for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;
12so that death works in us, but life in you.
13And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; *we* also believe, therefore also we speak;
14knowing that he who has raised the Lord Jesus shall raise us also with Jesus, and shall present us with you.
16Wherefore we faint not; but if indeed our outward man is consumed, yet the inward is renewed day by day.
(2 Cor. 4:1,8‑14,16)
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Eph. 2:8• 8For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift: (Eph. 2:8)
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Psa. 52:5• 5*God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psa. 52:5)
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Psa. 56:13• 13For thou hast delivered my soul from death; wilt thou not keep my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? (Psa. 56:13)
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Psa. 142:5• 5I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. (Psa. 142:5)
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Job 33:30• 30To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living. (Job 33:30)
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Isa. 38:11,19• 11I said, I shall not see Jah, Jah in the land of the living. With those who dwell where all has ceased to be, I shall behold man no more.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
(Isa. 38:11,19)
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Jer. 11:19• 19And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they 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. (Jer. 11:19)
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Ezek. 26:20• 20then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. (Ezek. 26:20)
 The goodness of the Lord—no human means—is the resource of the heart, the goodness of the Lord in His government. (Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 25-28 by J.N. Darby)
 In spite of the wickedness of man, the soul has faith in the goodness of the Lord to bring the believer into the land of the living, beyond the time of trouble. (Psalms 27 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living …!