Psalm 28

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 28:5 . He shall destroy them, and not build them up. David often foresaw that Saul’s army and party would perish in war. This prayer, Psalms 28:4-5, is in unison with the forms of prayer used in christian churches for their sovereigns in times of war and danger; “giving him the victory over all his enemies.” Yet we are not allowed to pray against but for our opposers. Psalms 28:8 . The Lord is their strength. The LXX, the strength of his people. REFLECTIONS. This prayer of David... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:1-7

Psalms 28:1-7Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock. The prayer of a saint in distressI. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him now that, in his distress, he called upon him (Psalms 28:1-2). Observe--1. His faith in prayer. “O Lord, my rock.”2. His fervency in prayer. “Unto Thee will I cry”--as one in earnest, being ready to sink unless Thou come in with seasonable succour.3. How solicitous he is to obtain an answer. “Be not silent to me.”4. His plea.(1) The sad despair he should... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:4-5

Psalms 28:4-5Give them according to their deeds. Saints desire God to punish sinnersI. why impenitent sinners deserve to be punished. Their wickedness lies in their endeavours, or intentions, to do evil. All their free, voluntary exercises are entirely selfish and criminal, for which they deserve to be punished.II. some sinners more deserve to be punished than others. One may design to take away a man’s property, another may design to take away a man’s life, and another may design to destroy a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:6-8

Psalms 28:6-8Blessed be the Lord, because He hath heard.A thanksgiving truly inspiredThese verses throw light upon the religious experience of the psalmist, and from them we learn--I. That his experience testified of answers to his prayer. There are two ways in which God answers prayer--1. Sometimes by granting the thing sought. Thus the prayers of Elijah, Moses, Hezekiah, were often answered, and thus the prayers of His people, in all ages, have sometimes been answered.2. Sometimes by endowing... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:7

Psalms 28:7The Lord is my strength and my shield.A sacred soloNote in the three sentences-there is in each that which is inward and that which is outward. “The Lord is my strength”--that is inward; “My shield”--that is outward. “My heart trusted in Him--inward; “I am helped”--outward. “My heart greatly rejoiceth”--inward; “With my song will I praise Him”--outward. It teaches us that truth and beauty of form are to be linked together: to be holy we need not to be uncouth. Slovenly preaching,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:8

Psalms 28:8My heart trusted in Him; and I am helped.The earlier and the later songThere are two actions of the heart--prophecy and memory. In the morning of life I look forward, “my heart trusted”; in the afternoon I look back, “my heart rejoiceth.” The morning trust comes before help; it is the prospect of the West seen from the crimson dawn. The afternoon joy follows help: it is the memory of the East seen from the setting sun. My heart is like the migration of the swallows. Every swallow... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:9

Psalms 28:9Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; feed them also and lift them up for ever.A prayer for the Church militantHere are four choice blessings.I. save thy people. This prayer may refer--1. To their conversion.2. Their sanctification.3. Their recovery from backsliding.4. Their deliverance from temptation.5. The need of the whole church. If we pray this prayer we must try and save souls.II. bless thine inheritance. After men are saved they have still many wants: such as--1.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:1

Psalms 28:1 « [A Psalm] of David. » Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Ver. 1. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock ] That thou mayest grant me what I begged so earnestly of thee in the former psalm especially, Psalms 28:4 , "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that I will seek after," &c. For this psalm is of the same subject with that; and seemeth to have been made much about the same... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:2

Psa 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. Ver. 2. When I lift up my hands ] An ordinary gesture in prayer, expressing faith (for they held out their open hands, as craving beggars with the palms upward, 1Ki 8:22 ) and helping fervency; while hands and heart went up together to God in the heavens, Lamentations 3:40 . Preces fundimus, ecelum tundimus, miserieordiam extorquemus, &c. (Tertul.). Toward thy holy oracle ]... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:3

Psa 28:3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts. Ver. 3. Draw me not away with the wicked ] Who seek to draw me away from my settled purpose of attending upon thee, απερισπαστως , 1 Corinthians 7:35 , and are therefore likely to be drawn away by thee to execution, as malefactors are drawn, hanged, and quartered (there wanteth but a hurdle, a horse, and a halter, said Belknapp, to do me right),... read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 28:1-9

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:1-7

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:4-5

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:6-8

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:7

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:8

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 28:9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:3

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