Psalm 27:8
New International Version
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek.

New Living Translation
My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.”

English Standard Version
You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.”

Berean Standard Bible
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

King James Bible
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

New King James Version
When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

New American Standard Bible
When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “I shall seek Your face, LORD.”

NASB 1995
When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.”

NASB 1977
When Thou didst say, “Seek My face,” my heart said to Thee, “Thy face, O LORD, I shall seek.”

Legacy Standard Bible
On Your behalf my heart says, “Seek My face,” “Your face, O Yahweh, I shall seek.”

Amplified Bible
When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You, “Your face, O LORD, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].”

Christian Standard Bible
My heart says this about you: “Seek his face.” LORD, I will seek your face.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My heart says this about You,” You are to seek My face.” LORD, I will seek Your face.

American Standard Version
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My heart said to you: "My face seeks your face; be my helper LORD JEHOVAH!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My heart said to thee, I have diligently sought thy face: thy face, O Lord, I will seek.

Contemporary English Version
My heart tells me to pray. I am eager to see your face,

Douay-Rheims Bible
My heart hath said to thee: My face hath sought thee: thy face, O Lord, will I still seek.

English Revised Version
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[When you said,] "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "O LORD, I will seek your face."

Good News Translation
When you said, "Come worship me," I answered, "I will come, LORD."

International Standard Version
My mind recalls your word, "Seek my face," so your face, LORD, I will seek.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In Thy behalf my heart hath said: 'Seek ye My face'; Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Literal Standard Version
My heart said to You, “They sought my face, | Your face, O YHWH, I seek.”

Majority Standard Bible
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

New American Bible
“Come,” says my heart, “seek his face”; your face, LORD, do I seek!

NET Bible
My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, LORD, do I seek.

New Heart English Bible
Psa 27:8 My heart said to you, "I have sought your face." Your face, LORD, I will seek.

Webster's Bible Translation
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said to thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

World English Bible
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Young's Literal Translation
To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD is My Salvation
7Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me. 8My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek. 9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.…

Cross References
Psalm 16:8
I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalm 24:6
Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

Psalm 34:4
I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 105:4
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

Amos 5:6
Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.


Treasury of Scripture

When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, LORD, will I seek.

When.

Psalm 24:6
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

Psalm 105:4
Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Thy

Psalm 63:1,2
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; …

Psalm 119:58
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Jeremiah 29:12,13
Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you…

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(8) When thou saidst.--The margin rightly rejects these words, and restores the order of the Hebrew; but the text of the Authorised Version really gives its meaning.

The thought seems borrowed from seeking admission to a royal personage to ask a favour.

Verse 8. - When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. The order of the words in the original is as follows: "To thee said my heart - Seek ye my face - thy face, Lord, will I seek." And the full meaning seems to he, "To thee said my heart - Hast thou said unto men, Seek ye my face? I for one will obey thee - Thy face, Lord, will I seek." The command, "Seek ye my face," had been given by David to the people on the day that he set up the ark upon Mount Zion (1 Chronicles 16:11). It was probably regarded as implied in Deuteronomy 4:29.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My heart
לִ֭בִּי (lib·bî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

said,
אָמַ֣ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Seek
בַּקְּשׁ֣וּ (baq·qə·šū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

His face.”
פָנָ֑י (p̄ā·nāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face

Your face,
פָּנֶ֖יךָ (pā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

O LORD,
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

I will seek.
אֲבַקֵּֽשׁ׃ (’ă·ḇaq·qêš)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after


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