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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 28:1-5

In these verses David is very earnest in prayer. I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him, now that, in his distress, he called upon him, Ps. 28:1, 2. Observe his faith in prayer: O Lord, my rock, denoting his belief of God's power (he is a rock) and his dependence upon that power??He is my rock, on whom I build my hope.? Observe his fervency in prayer: ?To thee will I cry, as one in earnest, being ready to sink, unless thou come in with seasonable succour.? And observe how... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:2

Hear the voice of my supplications ,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit; when I cry unto thee ; as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard; when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle : the holy of holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple, which was sometimes so called, 1 Kings 6:23 ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked ,.... That is, with those who are notoriously wicked; who are inwardly and outwardly wicked; whose inward part is very wickedness, and who sell themselves and give up themselves to work wickedness: the sense is, that God would not suffer him to be drawn away, or drawn aside by wicked men, but that he would deliver him from temptation; or that he would not give him up into their hands, to be at their mercy; who he knew would not spare him, if they had him in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:4

Give them according to their deeds ,.... According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal; and according to the wickedness of their endeavours ; for though wicked men do not always succeed; yet their want of success does not excuse their wickedness; give them after the work of their hands ; see 2 Timothy 4:14 ; render to them their desert ; what their iniquities, in thought, word, and deed, deserve: such petitions are not contrary to that Christian charity... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:2

Toward thy holy oracle - קדשך דביר debir kodshecha ; debir properly means that place in the holy of holies from which God gave oracular answers to the high priest. This is a presumptive proof that there was a temple now standing; and the custom of stretching out the hands in prayer towards the temple, when the Jews were at a distance from it, is here referred to. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:3

Draw file not away - Let me not be involved in the punishment of the wicked. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:4

Give them - Is the same as thou wilt give them; a prophetic declaration of what their lot will be. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:2

Verse 2 2.Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to thee. This repetition is a sign of a heart in anguish. David’s ardor and vehemence in prayer are also intimated by the noun signifying voice, and the verb signifying to cry. He means that he was so stricken with anxiety and fear, that he prayed not coldly, but with burning, vehement desire, like those who, under the pressure of grief, vehemently cry out. In the second clause of the verse, by synecdoche, the thing signified is indicated by the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:3

Verse 3 3.Draw me not away with wicked men. The meaning is, that in circumstances so dissimilar, God should not mingle the righteous with the wicked in the same indiscriminate destruction. (595) Undoubtedly, too, in speaking of his enemies, he indirectly asserts his own integrity. But he did not pray in this manner, because he thought that God was indiscriminately and unreasonably angry with men; he reasons rather from the nature of God, that he ought to cherish good hope, because it was God’s... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:4

Verse 4 4.Give them according to their works. Having thus requested God to have a regard to his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his enemies. And the accumulation of words shows that he had groaned long and grievously under the burden before he broke forth to desire such vengeance. He intimates that the wicked of whom he speaks had transgressed not once, nor for a short time, nor in one way, but that they had proceeded so far in their constant evil doings, that their... read more

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