Psalm 28:2-3

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

a Prayer and Its Answer Psalms 28:1-9 This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. Psalms 28:2-3 resemble Psalms 26:8-9 . God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably, Zephaniah 3:17 , r.v., margin; sometimes to test our faith, Matthew 15:23 ; sometimes because He has already spoken and we have not listened, Matthew 26:62 . But let us never go elsewhere for help, 1 Samuel 28:6-7 . Let us wait and pray, lifting up our hands in the dark to touch His hands.... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 28:1-9

The affinity between this psalm and the previous one is evident and its placing by the editor here was in all likelihood due to that fact. InPsalms 27:1-14; Psalms 27:1-14, in true order, praise prepares for, and issues in, prayer, the whole ending in an appeal to "wait on Jehovah." The next psalm opens-Unto Thee, O Jehovah, will I call. This is not to suggest that the song was written by the same person or immediately. It rather affords an illustration of a song written by one who acted on... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:1-5

The Psalmist Earnestly Calls On God To Hear His Prayer (Psalms 28:1-3 ). In each of these two verses the ideas fall into an abbc pattern, with each central idea then being repeated in another form. Note the contrast between the two verses. In the first the Psalmist wishes to avoid what to him is virtually a living death, a silent YHWH. In the other He joyously looks to the living God within the inner Sanctuary, in full anticipation of response. Woe be to us also if God is silent in our lives.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:1-9

XXVIII. Prayer for deliverance from godless Jews, and for vengeance upon them. The Ps. ends with thanksgiving and prayer for ruler and people.Psalms 28:2. Read mg. Psalms 28:4 . Yahweh’ s “ anointed” may be either a king or a high priest. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 28:2

i.e. Towards the holy of holies, which is so called, 1 Kings 6:23, compared with 2 Chronicles 3:10; compare also 1 Kings 6:5; 1 Kings 8:6, because there the ark was; from whence God gave oracular answers to his people; and to which they accordingly directed their prayers, not only when they drew near to it, but when they were at a distance from it, as Daniel 6:10. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked: the sense is, either, 1. Do not suffer me to be drawn away by their counsel or example to imitate their evil courses. For God is oft said to do that which he doth not effect, but only permit and order, as 2 Samuel 12:12. Or, 2. Do not draw me into the same snares and mischief with them; do not drag me, as thou dost or wilt do all these malefactors, to execution and destruction. Let me not die the death of the wicked. Compare Psalms 26:9. Thus drawing is used... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

INTRODUCTIONHitsig and others have assigned this psalm to Jeremiah, but there does not seem to be thy sufficient reason for questioning the traditional title which gives it to David. It may have been composed before he became king in Jerusalem, or at the time of Absalom’s rebellion. It consists of two divisions. After earnestly entreating audience (Psalms 28:1-2), the psalmist prays that he may not be confounded with the wicked in their just punishment (Psalms 28:3-5). He then gives thanks for... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 28:1-9 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent, I become like those that have gone down into the pit. Hear my voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle ( Psalms 28:1-2 ).So David in his prayer had those times when he lifted up his hands towards God.Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. Give to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

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

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