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“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”;[a]
    your face, Lord, do I seek!(A)
Do not hide your face from me;
    do not repel your servant in anger.
You are my salvation; do not cast me off;
    do not forsake me, God my savior!
10 Even if my father and mother forsake me,
    the Lord will take me in.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 27:8 Seek his face: to commune with God in the Temple. The idiom is derived from the practice of journeying to sacred places, cf. Hos 5:15; 2 Sm 21:1; Ps 24:6.

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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