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Psalms 28:3-5
The Psalmist's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and that they may be judged as they deserve.
The Psalmist's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and that they may be judged as they deserve.
Verse Psalms 28:3. _DRAW ME NOT AWAY_] Let me not be involved in the punishment of the wicked....
DRAW ME NOT AWAY WITH THE WICKED - See the notes at Psalms 26:9. The prayer here, as well as the prayer in Psalms 26:9, expresses a strong desire not to be united with wicked people in feeling or in d...
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...
WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven_ MISCHIEF. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
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,...
_DRAW ME NOT AWAY WITH THE WICKED, AND WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, WHICH SPEAK PEACE TO THEIR NEIGHBOURS, BUT MISCHIEF IS IN THEIR HEARTS._ Draw me not - the 'supplication' which in Psalms 28:1, he...
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...
DRAW ME NOT AWAY] to punishment and destruction: cp. Psalms 26:9....
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...
DRAW ME NOT. — Better, _Drag me not._ In Ezekiel 32:18 _seq.,_ we have a magnificent vision of judgment, in which the wicked nations are represented as being dragged to death and destruction. In the p...
אַל ־תִּמְשְׁכֵ֣נִי עִם ־רְשָׁעִים֮ וְ עִם ־פ
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...
(c) Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts. (c) Destroy not the good with the bad....
Voice. Separating the waters from the earth at the beginning, as the six other voices may denote the other works of the creation; or all these voices may signify the various effects of thunder, or may...
Jesus felt this, in the days of his flesh, of the deceitfulness of men. Matthew 22:15....
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...
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...
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 t...
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts. Ver. 3. _Draw me not away with the wicked_] Who seek to d...
_Draw me not away with the wicked_ The sense is, either, 1st, Do not suffer me to be drawn away, by their counsel or example, to imitate them in their evil courses. For God is often said to do that wh...
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...
Draw me not away, to destruction, to punishment in time and eternity, WITH THE WICKED AND WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, WHICH SPEAK PEACE TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, with an outward profession of friendliness...
1-5 David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest till they have received some token that their prayers are heard. H...
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 no...
Psalms 28:3 away H4900 (H8799) wicked H7563 workers H6466 (H8802) iniquity H205 speak H1696 (H8802) peace...
THE PSALMIST EARNESTLY CALLS ON GOD TO HEAR HIS PRAYER (PSALMS 28:1). In each of these two verses the ideas fall into an abbc pattern, with each central idea then being repeated in another form. Note...
Psalms 28:1. _Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock: be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit._ Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should become...
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...
_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 28:3 The WICKED here are not simply people who commit sins, for even the faithful do that (see Psalms 32:6). The wicked are those who oppose God and
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...
Jeremiah 9:8; Jeremiah 9:9; Micah 3:5; Matthew 22:15; Matthew 25:41;...
Draw not — Do not drag me; as thou dost these, to execution and destruction....