Psalms 27:3

Though an host should encamp against me,.... An host of the ungodly, as the Targum; though ever so many of them, even ten thousands of them, as in Psa 3:6; should beset him on every side;

my heart…

Though an host - Though an “army;” that is, any army, or any number of men in battle array. The past interposition of God in similar times of trouble and danger was to him a sufficient security that…

We may observe here,

I. With what a lively faith David triumphs in God, glories in his holy name, and in the interest he had in him. 1. The Lord is my light. David's subjects called him the light of…

The language may be figurative, but is more natural, if the writer was, like David, actually exposed to war's alarms. Cp. Psa 3:6.

in this In the truth of Psa 27:27. But it is better to render with…