David
Psalm 27:1BSB·superscription

Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

C.H. Spurgeon Reformed Baptist

The Lord is not merely a giver of light but light itself, not a bestower of salvation but salvation in His very person. When you have laid hold of Him by faith, you possess all covenant blessings at once. The question "whom shall I fear?" answers itself: the powers of darkness cannot stand against our light, and hell holds no terror for those who are His salvation. This is no boastful challenge like Goliath's; it rests on omnipotence, not on the vigor of an arm of flesh.

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John Gill Reformed Baptist

Christ the eternal Word is your light and your salvation, not in some mere temporal sense of prosperity or deliverance from trouble, but in the light of grace that makes you, once darkness itself, into one who sees light. Every increase of light comes from Him, and where there is more light, there is less fear: not of the prince of darkness, nor of earthly persecutors, nor of the blackness reserved for the godless, for your light is everlasting and you are made ready for inheritance with the saints in light.

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Keil & Delitzsch Lutheran

The same longing after Zion meets us sounding forth from this as from the preceding Psalm. To remain his whole life long in the vicinity of the house of God, is here his only prayer; and that, rescued from his enemies, he shall there offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, is his confident expectation.