- Does Psalms 27:1 indicate a plea or an affirmation of secure confidence (belief)?
- Do Psalms 27:2-3 accentuate this confidence?
- Does Psalms 27:4 indicate a request or, rather that the individual continue “in the house of the Lord”. And, in this context, what is “the house of the Lord?”
- Would Psalms 27:5-6 indicate that the speaker has recently overcome some test or escaped from some difficulty?
- How does the tenor of the Psalm change in Psalms 27:7-9?
- Does Psalms 27:10 literally mean that his parents have deserted him?
- What is the plea (or the pleas) in Psalms 27:11-13?
- And, finally, what is the closing refrain of the speaker — confidence? uncertainty? supplication?
