Psalms Chapter 28

From The Open Bible Project

By David.

28:1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

28:2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

• (b) He counts himself as a dead man, till God shows his favour toward him, and grants him his petition.

28:3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

• (c) Destroy not the good with the bad.

28:4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

• (d) He thus prayed in respect to God’s glory and not for his own cause, being assured that God would punish the persecutors of his Church.

28:5 Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

• (e) Let them be utterly destroyed as in (Malachi 1:4).

28:6 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

• (f) Because he felt the assurance of God’s help in his heart, his mouth was opened to sing his praises.

28:7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

28:8 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

• (g) Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God declared his power.

28:9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.