What does Psalms 27:14 mean?

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 27:14, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

Psalms 27:12-14

  1. 12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
  2. 13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
  3. 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Study note

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).

Wait, &c.--in confident expectation. The last clause is, literally, "and wait," &c., as if expecting new measures of help.

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About the book of Psalms

Author
several authors; 73 psalms bear David's name in the title
When
from the 10th century BC to after the exile
Period
Reino unido, c. 1050 a 930 a.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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