The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.
Ver. 8. The Lord is their strength] Not mine only, as Psalms 28:7, but the strength of all and every one of the holy community, of true Christians, partakers of Christ's unction, of his Spirit.
Verse Psalms 28:8. _THE LORD_ IS _THEIR STRENGTH_] Instead of למו _lamo, to_ _them_, eight MSS. of _Kennicott_ and _De Rossi_ have לעמו _leammo, to his people_; and this reading is confirmed by the _...
THE LORD IS THEIR STRENGTH - Margin, “his strength.” The Hebrew is, “their strength,” or “strength to them.” The allusion is to the people of God. The course of thought seems to be, that the psalmist,...
Psalms 28 Prayer For Judgment and Praise For the Answer _ 1. Prayer for judgment (Psalms 28:1)_ 2. Praise for the answer (Psalms 28:6)...
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...
THEIR. [strength] to His People. The letter Aleph being interchangeable with Ayin. This orthography is attested by some codices, and by Septuagint and Syriac. Thus agreeing with Psalms 29:11. SAVING...
Concluding intercession for the people. Cf. Psalms 3:8....
_their strength Their_must refer to the people. But there is no antecedent for the pronoun, and it is best to follow a few Heb. MSS., the LXX, Vulg., and Syr., in reading, a strength unto his people....
THE LORD IS THEIR STRENGTH— _The Lord is his guard; even he himself is the triumphant guard of his anointed._ So Mudge; who observes, that the words are evidently spoken by the people, or priests, ret...
PSALMS 28 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Turned into Praise. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 28:1-2, Prayer Boldly Pleads the Feared Result of Refusal to Answer. Stanza II., Psalms 28:3-4 (with addition,...
_THE LORD IS THEIR STRENGTH, AND HE IS THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS ANOINTED._ Their strength. "The Lord," whom he had called "my strength" (Psalms 28:7), he now calls "their strength;" so wholly ident...
28:8 salvation (e-11) Lit. 'salvations,' 'deliverances.' see Psalms 18:50 ; Psalms 42:5 ,Psalms 42:11 ; Psalms 74:12 ....
This Ps. is in many respects similar to Psalms 26, especially in the writer's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and may escape their fate; and in the confidence which he reaches in...
THEIR STRENGTH] RM 'a strength unto his people.' The saving strength] RV 'a stronghold of salvation.' HIS ANOINTED] the king....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
THEIR STRENGTH — _i.e._, the strength of His people, who are throughout in the poet’s thought, even if it is the individual and not the community that speaks. The LXX. and Vulg. read (comp. Psalms 29:...
יְהוָ֥ה עֹֽז ־לָ֑מֹו וּ מָ֘עֹ֤וז יְשׁוּעֹ֖ות...
Psalms 28:1 THE unquestionable resemblances to Psalms 26:1 scarcely require that this should be considered its companion. The differences are as obvious as the likenesses. While the prayer "Draw me no...
A PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER Psalms 28:1 This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom's rebellion. Psalms 28:2 resemble Psalms 26:8. God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably,...
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. In Psalms 27:1, in true order, praise prepares for, and issue...
The LORD [is] (g) their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed. (g) Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God declared his power....
Here is a sweet hosanna. It was first sung by Christ, and may be well sung by all his redeemed in him. Reader, do not overtook the benediction in the close of it. Is not this another view of Jesus? Re...
8._Jehovah is their strength. _By way of explanation, he repeats what he had said before, that God had been his strength; namely, because he had blessed his armies. David had indeed employed the hand...
Psalms 28. The godly Jew pleads, in the time of trouble come on the nation, that he may not be confounded with the wicked. If Jehovah did not appear in his behalf, so much was he in the same distress...
THE LORD [IS] THEIR STRENGTH,.... The strength of his people, mentioned in Psalms 28:9; not only the strength of David in particular, but of all his people in general; see Psalms 37:39; AND HE [IS] T...
_The Lord is their strength_ That is, the strength of his people, mentioned in the next verse. _He is the saving strength_ Hebrews ישׁועות מעון, _the strength of the preservations, deliverances_, or _...
The Lord is their Strength, a protection to all those who believe and trust in Him, AND HE IS THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS ANOINTED, mightily preserving all those consecrated to Him from every form of d...
PRAYER AND COMFORT IN TIMES OF REBELLION. A psalm of David, written in similar circumstances as the two foregoing ones, his heart apparently being so full that his mouth was bound to speak, David in...
THEIR STRENGTH: Or, his strength SAVING STRENGTH: _ Heb._ strength of salvations...
6-9 Has God heard our supplications? Let us then bless his name. The Lord is my strength, to support me, and carry me on through all my services and sufferings. The heart that truly believes, shall i...
THEIR STRENGTH, i.e. the strength of his people, mentioned in the next verse; the relative being put before the antecedent, which is left to be gathered out of the following matter, as it is NUMBERS 2...
Psalms 28:8 LORD H3068 strength H5797 saving H3444 refuge H4581 anointed H4899 their - or, his saving strength - Heb. strength of salvations his -...
HE REJOICES BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT YHWH WILL BE THE PROTECTOR OF ALL HIS PEOPLE (PSALMS 28:8). But the Psalmist is not only concerned for himself. His concern is for all God's people. And he rejoices b...
CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from enemies and testimony as to answered prayer. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The Lord is our strength to support us in either service or suffering, as well...
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, is in unison with the forms of prayer used in...
_Draw me not away with the wicked._ A PRAYER AGAINST IDENTIFICATION WITH UNGODLY MEN I. the character Of ungodly society. 1. Apostates--gone away from truth, virtue, God. 2. Rebels--wrong in relat...
_Blessed be the Lord, because He hath heard._ A THANKSGIVING TRULY INSPIRED These verses throw light upon the religious experience of the psalmist, and from them we learn-- I. That his experience t...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:1. This is a lament, a cry for help during the threat posed by evildoers. The threat is probably to the whole community (vv. Psalms 28:8),
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:6 The psalm ends with confidence that God will protect his PEOPLE and his ANOINTED (the Davidic king, who represents and embodies the whole people; see...
INTRODUCTION Hitsig 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...
EXPOSITION This short psalm consists of three parts: (1) a prayer for succour (Psalms 28:1, Psalms 28:2); (2) a denunciation of the wicked (Psalms 28:3); and (3
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...
1 Samuel 16:13; Isaiah 61:1; Psalms 2:2; Psalms 20:6...