Adam Clarke on Psalms 27:9

Hide not thy face - from me - As my face is towards thee wheresoever I am, so let thy face be turned towards me. In a Persian MS. poem entitled Shah we Gudda, "The King and the Beggar," I have found a remarkable couplet, most strangely and artificially involved, which expresses exactly the same sentiment one meaning of which is: -

Our face is towards Thee in all our ways;

Thy face is towards us in all our intentions.

Something similar, though not the same sentiment is in Hafiz, lib. i., gaz. v., cap. 2: -

How can we with the disciples turn our face towards the kaaba,

When our spiritual instructer turns his face to wards the wine-cellar?

I shall subjoin a higher authority than either: - Ὁτι οφθαλμοι Κυριου επι δικαιους, Και ωτα αυτου εις δεησις αυτων· Προσωπον δε Κυριου επι ποιουντας κακα. 1Pet 3:12.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous; And his ears to their supplication: And the face of the Lord is upon the workers of evil.