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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, 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. (Psa. 42:5)
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Psa. 56:3• 3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. (Psa. 56:3)
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Psa. 116:9‑11• 9I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
10I believed, therefore have I spoken: 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 seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11For 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.
12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
(2 Cor. 4:1,8‑14,16)
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Eph. 2:8• 8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (Eph. 2:8)
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Psa. 52:5• 5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, 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 not thou deliver 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, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and 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, to 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 the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
(Isa. 38:11,19)
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Jer. 11:19• 19But 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. (Jer. 11:19)
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Ezek. 26:20• 20When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall 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 …!