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Psalms 28:1-9

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), which each of the faithful is personally involved in (thus the references to “I,” “me,” and “my” throughout).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    PSALM XXVIII _A righteous man in affliction makes supplication to God, and_ _complains of the malice of his enemies_, 1-4; _whom he describes as impious, and whose destruction he_ _predicts_, 5....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    UNTO THEE WILL I CRY - That is, under the consciousness of the danger to which I am exposed - the danger of being drawn away into the society of the wicked. In such circumstances his reliance was not...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TITLE.. Psalm. App-65. OF DAVID. by David, or relating to the true David. The Psalm is. continuation of Psalms 27, and stands in relation to Psalms 18. LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. In Psalms 28 and...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Render with R.V., Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; My rock, be not thou deaf unto me. He appeals to Jehovah as his _rock_, the ground of his confidence. See Psalms 18:2 (note), 31. _be not silent un...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Introductory appeal for a hearing, emphasising the urgency of the need....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _David prayeth_ [or _prophesieth_] _earnestly against his enemies: he blesseth God; he prayeth for the people._ _A Psalm_ of David. _TITLE._ לדוד _LEDAVID._— This Psalm, as well as the foregoing, is...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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._ David's prayer to God not to be silent at his cry (Psalms 28:1...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PIT] the grave, or Sheol, the state of the dead. Unless his prayer is heard he looks for nothing less than death....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY ROCK. — Heb., _tsûr,_ from a root implying “bind together” (Deuteronomy 14:25), not necessarily therefore with sense of height, but with that of strength and solidity. Thus Tyre (or Tsûr) is built...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לְ דָוִ֡ד אֵ֘לֶ֤יךָ יְהוָ֨ה ׀ אֶקְרָ֗א צוּרִי֮...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Finishing. Septuagint, Greek: exodiou or exodou, may also signify "the going out;" (Haydock) as if the sacred ministers exhorted their successors to perform their duty in the ensuing week, or on the l...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS We have here the same speaker, under situations not unsimilar, to what went before, in the preceding Psalm. The opening of this blessed scripture, is with prayer, and the close of it, with p...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _A SILENT GOD_ ‘Be not silent to me.’ Psalms 28:1 I. THE PSALMIST USED THE WORDS OF THE TEXT IN WHAT WE MAY DESCRIBE AS THEIR LOWEST, THEIR LEAST ALARMING, SENSE.—His fears extended only to a tempo...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._Unto thee, O Jehovah! will I cry. _The Psalmist begins by declaring that he would betake himself to the help of God alone, which shows both his faith and his sincerity. Although men labor every whe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    UNTO THEE WILL I CRY,.... This denotes the distress the psalmist was in, fervency and ardour in prayer, resolution to continue in it, and singularity with respect to the object of it; determining to c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 28:1 «[A Psalm] of David. » 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. Ver. 1. _Unto thee will I...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Be not silent to me_ Hebrew, אל תחרשׁ ממני, _al techeresh mimmenni, be not deaf to me_, that is, to my prayers; do not act as if thou didst not hear, or didst disregard my prayers; _lest, if thou be...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Unto Thee will I cry, once more with importunate earnestness, O LORD, MY ROCK, his impregnable Stronghold, Psalms 18:2. BE NOT SILENT TO ME, being deaf to his prayer and so refusing to answer, LEST, I...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TO ME: _ Heb._ from me...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PSALM 28 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm seems to be made upon the same occasion with the former, and is mixed, as many others of his Psalms are, of hopes and fears, of prayers and praises. David prayeth earn...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 28:1 David H1732 cry H7121 (H8799) LORD H3068 Rock H6697 silent H2814 (H8799) silent H2790 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 28:1 I. The Psalmist used the words of the text in what we may describe as their lowest, their least alarming, sense. His fears extended only to a temporary, an apparent, silence, to a want of...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 26:4; Isaiah 38:18; Job 33:28; Proverbs 1:12; Psalms 142:1;...

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