You have said, (A)“Seek[a] my face.”
My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”[b]
    (B)Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    (C)O God of my salvation!
10 For (D)my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will (E)take me in.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:8 The command (seek) is addressed to more than one person
  2. Psalm 27:8 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

My heart says of you, “Seek his face!(A)
    Your face, Lord, I will seek.
Do not hide your face(B) from me,
    do not turn your servant away in anger;(C)
    you have been my helper.(D)
Do not reject me or forsake(E) me,
    God my Savior.(F)
10 Though my father and mother forsake me,
    the Lord will receive me.

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