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The requests are now poured forth with all the greater freedom and importunity, that God may be willing to be entreated and invoked. The Hiph. הִטָּה signifies in this passage standing by itself (cf. Job 24:4): to push aside. The clause עֶזְרָתִי הָיִיתָ does not say: be Thou my help (which is impossible on syntactical grounds), nor is it to be taken relatively: Thou who wast my help (for which there is no ground in what precedes); but on the contrary the praet. gives the ground of the request that follows “Thou art my help (lit., Thou has become, or hast ever been) - cast me, then, not away,” and it is, moreover, accented accordingly. Psa 27:10, as we have already observed, does not sound as though it came from the lips of David, of whom it is only said during the time of his persecution by Saul, that at that time he was obliged to part from his parents, 1Sa 22:3. The words certainly might be David's, if Psa 27:10 would admit of being taken hypothetically, as is done by Ewald, §362, b: should my father and my mother forsake me, yet Jahve will etc. But the entreaty “forsake me not” is naturally followed by the reason: for my father and my mother have forsaken me; and just as naturally does the consolation: but Jahve will take me up, prepare the way for the entreaties which begin anew in Psa 27:11. Whereas, if כי is taken hypothetically, Psa 27:11 stands disconnectedly in the midst of the surrounding requests. On יַֽאַסְפֵנִי cf. Jos 20:4.