Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 28:7
I am helped — He speaks of it as past, because God assured him by his spirit, that he had heard and accepted his prayers.
I am helped — He speaks of it as past, because God assured him by his spirit, that he had heard and accepted his prayers.
Verse Psalms 28:7. _THE LORD_ IS _MY STRENGTH_] I have the fullest persuasion that he hears, will answer, and will save me....
THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH - See the notes at Psalms 18:1. AND MY SHIELD - See the notes at Psalms 3:3. Compare Psalms 33:20;...
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...
SHIELD. Here is the link with Psalms 18. Compare "strength" in Psalms 28:8, below. TRUSTED. confided. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. TRUSTED... HELPED... PRAISE. Note the reference to past, present, and f...
Thanksgiving succeeds to prayer. Are we to suppose that faith realises the answer to its prayer as already granted, and can give thanks accordingly? or that this conclusion was added by the Psalmist s...
_my strength_ Cp. Exodus 15:2. _my shield_ See note on Psalms 3:3. _trusted_ Better as R.V., hath trusted. _greatly rejoiceth_ Exulteth. Cp. Psalms 5:11;...
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 MY STRENGTH AND MY SHIELD; MY HEART TRUSTED IN HIM, AND I AM HELPED: THEREFORE MY HEART GREATLY REJOICETH; AND WITH MY SONG WILL I PRAISE HIM._ My heart trusted in him, and I am helped....
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...
THEREFORE MY HEART GREATLY REJOICETH. — Better, _danceth for joy,_ as in the Prayer Book. Another possible translation is, “And when I have been helped my heart will dance for joy.” WITH MY SONG. — L...
יְהוָ֤ה ׀ עֻזִּ֥י וּ מָגִנִּי֮ בֹּ֤ו בָטַ֥ח ל
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...
Fire. Lightning, which deals destruction around. (Calmet) --- The Holy Ghost appeared in the form of parted tongues of fire, to enable the apostles to convert the desert of the Gentile world, and the...
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...
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] MY STRENGTH,.... That is, the author both of natural and spiritual strength; that gave him strength of body, and fortitude of mind, to bear up under all the exercises he was tried with;...
The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. Ver. 7. _The Lord is my strength and my sh...
_Blessed be the Lord_, &c. How soon are the sorrows of the saints turned into joy, and their prayers into praises! It was in faith David prayed, Psalms 28:2, _Hear the voice of my supplication_, and b...
The Lord is my Strength, which serves to protect him, AND MY SHIELD, safe-guarding him against every attack. MY HEART TRUSTED IN HIM, AND I AM HELPED, the fulfillment of his prayer being represented a...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 28:7 LORD H3068 strength H5797 shield H4043 heart H3820 trusted H982 (H8804) helped H5826 (H8738) heart...
HE REJOICES BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT YHWH HAS HEARD HIM AND WILL BE HIS STRENGTH (PSALMS 28:6). His thoughts now become more positive. The negative was necessary, but now he begins to look upward. He has...
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...
_The Lord is my strength and my shield._ A SACRED SOLO Note 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 shie...
_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...
_Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock._ THE PRAYER OF A SAINT IN DISTRESS I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him now that, in his distress, he called upon him (Psalms 28:1). Obser...
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 2:1; 2 Samuel 22:1; Ephesians 6:10; Exodus 15:1; Genesis 1