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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,{HR}[O] my soul, and hast been disquieted within me?{HR}Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him{HR}[For] the help of his countenance. (Psa. 42:5)
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Psa. 56:3• 3The day I am afraid I will trust in thee. (Psa. 56:3)
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Psa. 116:9‑11• 9I will walk before Jehovah in lands of the living.
10I believed, for I speak;{HR}As for me, I was greatly afflicted.
11I said in my haste (alarm),{HR}All mankind [are] false.
(Psa. 116:9‑11)
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2 Cor. 4:1,8‑14,16• 1On this account, having this ministry, according as we obtained mercy, we faint not,
8in everything being afflicted, yet not straitened, sorely yet not utterly perplexed,
9persecuted yet not forsaken, cast down yet 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 that live are ever being delivered up unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12So that death worketh in us, but life in you.
13But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed wherefore [also] I spake: we also believe, wherefore also we speak;
14knowing that he that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also with Jesus, and shall present [us] with you.
16Wherefore we fail not; but even if our outer man is consuming, yet the inner is being renewed day by day.
(2 Cor. 4:1,8‑14,16)
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Eph. 2:8• 8For by grace ye are saved through faith; and this not of yourselves(God's is the gift: (Eph. 2:8)
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Psa. 52:5• 5God shall likewise destroy thee forever;{HR}He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of tent,{HR}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:{HR}[Wilt thou] not [deliver] my feet from falling,{HR}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,{HR}{i}Thou{/i} [art] my refuge,{HR}My portion in the land of the living. (Psa. 142:5)
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Job 33:30• 30To bring back his soul from corruption,{HR}That he may be enlightened with the light of life. (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. I shall not behold man longer with the inhabitants of the world.
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• 19{i}And 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.{/i} (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 …!

W. Kelly Translation

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If I had not trusted{HR}To look upon the goodness of Jehovah{HR}In the land of the living!