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Psalms 27:5

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

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For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalms 27:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 27:5

Theological / Devotional

Pavilion. Heb. sok, “a covert,” used of the covert of a lion in Ps. 10:9; Jer. 25:38; hence a hiding place. Sok is translated “tabernacle” in Ps. 76:2, which is described as being in Salem. The language of Ps. 27:5 is figurative of a place of protection. The literal house of God in Jerusalem cannot here be meant, because that did not come into existence until many years later.

In the secret. Literally, “in the hiding place.” The most retired part of the dwelling. In the Hebrew the word for “secret” is the noun form of the verb translated “shall he hide.”

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