Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Ver. 9. Save thy people] The Church must share in our prayers.
And bless thine inheritance] Which cannot but be dear to thee.
Feed them also] For they are but ill-favouredly fed by Saul.
Lift them up] Over all their enemies, as Psalms 27:6 .
Verse Psalms 28:9. _SAVE THY PEOPLE_] Continue to preserve them from all their enemies; from idolatry, and from sin of every kind. _BLESS THINE INHERITANCE_] They have taken thee for their God; thou...
SAVE THY PEOPLE - All thy people. The psalm appropriately closes with a prayer for all the people of God. The prayer is offered in view of the deliverance which the psalmist had himself experienced, a...
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...
FEED. tend as. shepherd. Compare Psalms 23....
Concluding intercession for the people. Cf. Psalms 3:8....
_thine inheritance_ Israel. Cp. Deuteronomy 4:20. _feed them_ Lit. _shepherd them_. Cp. Psalms 23:1; 2 Samuel 7:7. _Govern them_in the adaptation of this verse in the Te Deum is from the Vulg. _rege_...
LIFT THEM UP FOR EVER— _Support them for ever._ "Feed them, as a shepherd does his flock, and support them for ever by thy goodness and mercy." See Psalms 23 and Fenwick. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Whither sh...
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,...
_SAVE THY PEOPLE, AND BLESS THINE INHERITANCE: FEED THEM ALSO, AND LIFT THEM UP FOR EVER._ Concluding prayer that the Lord will continue "forever" the salvation which He hath conferred on His people....
28:9 lift (f-12) Or 'bear.' see Deuteronomy 1:31 ....
FEED THEM] as a shepherd. Lift them up] RV 'bear them up,' a beautiful continuation of the same figure: see Isaiah 40:11....
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...
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...
FEED... LIFT THEM UP. — These words suggest comparison with Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 63:9. The incorporation of this petition in the _Te Deum_ is one of those interesting facts that link the Christian wor...
הֹושִׁ֤יעָה ׀ אֶת ־עַמֶּ֗ךָ וּ בָרֵ֥ךְ אֶת ־נ
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...
PSALM XXVIII. (AFFERTE DOMINO.) An invitation to glorify God, with a commemoration of his mighty works. Prepareth. Hebrew, "delivereth," as a midwife (St. Jerome, 5 Edition, Aquila) "maketh the hind...
REFLECTIONS Here, my soul, take a lesson from the ever blessed Jesus, David's Lord, how to cry unto God as thy Rock, thy Jesus, thy sure salvation. He will not be silent to this cry, for he hath said,...
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...
In this verse he shows that it was not so much his own welfare as the welfare of the whole Church which was the object of his concern, and that he neither lived nor reigned for himself, but for the co...
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...
SAVE THY PEOPLE,.... The psalmist begins the psalm with petitions for himself, and closes it with prayers for the people of God; whom God has chosen for his people, taken into covenant to be his peopl...
_Bless thine inheritance_ Israel, for whom he prays, not as his people, but as God's. Save _thy_ people: _thine_ inheritance. God's interest in them lay nearer his heart than his own. _Feed them also_...
Save Thy people, with an everlasting redemption, AND BLESS THINE INHERITANCE, the people whom Jehovah Himself had chosen for His portion; FEED THEM ALSO, as a true Shepherd, AND LIFT THEM UP FOREVER,...
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...
FEED: Or, rule...
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...
THINE INHERITANCE; Israel, for whom I pray; partly because thou hast in some sort committed them to my charge, and partly because Saul did not take due care of them. LIFT THEM UP; raise them out of th...
Psalms 28:9 Save H3467 (H8685) people H5971 bless H1288 (H8761) inheritance H5159 Shepherd H7462 (H8798) bear...
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...
_Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; feed them also and lift them up for ever._ A PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH MILITANT Here are four choice blessings. I. save thy people. This prayer may refer-...
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 Kings 8:51; 1 Kings 8:53; 2 Samuel 21:3; 2 Samuel 7:7; Deuteronomy