Mazmur 27:9-10

27:9 Do not reject me! ¹ 

Do not push your servant away in anger!

You are my deliverer! ² 

Do not forsake or abandon me,

O God who vindicates me!

27:10 Even if my father and mother abandoned me, ³ 

the Lord would take me in. ⁴ 

[27:9]  ¹ tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[27:9]  ² tn Or “[source of] help.”

[27:10]  ³ tn Or “though my father and mother have abandoned me.”

[27:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “gather me in”; or “receive me.”