Psalms 28:2

_HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE_ _ HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS, WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE._ Hear ... my supplications ... holy oracle - so the most holy of the tabernacle or temple was called (1 Kings 6:16) х_ DªBIYR_ (H1687), from _ DAABAR_ (H1696), to speak], because God thence spake reponses when consulted by the people, at first through Moses, afterward through the high priest (Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89): Moses "heard the voice of One speaking unto him from off the mercy- seat that

2._Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to thee. _This repetition is a sign of a heart in anguish. David’s ardor and vehemence in prayer are also intimated by the noun signifying _voice, _and the verb signifying _to cry. _He means that he was so stricken with anxiety and fear, that he prayed not coldly, but with burning, vehement desire, like those who, under the pressure of grief, vehemently cry out. In the second clause of the verse, by synecdoche, the thing signified is indicated by the sign. It has been a common practice in all ages for men to lift up their hands in prayer. Nature has extorted this gesture even from heathen idolaters, to show by a visible sign that their minds were directed to God alone. The greater part, it is true, contented with this ceremony, busy themselves to no effect with their own inventions; but the very lifting up of the hands, when there is no hypocris...

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. He prays that he may not be numbered with the wicked. Save me from being entangled in the snares they have laid for me. Save me from being infected with their sins, and from doing as they do. Lord, never leave me to use such arts of deceit and treachery for my safety, as they use for my ruin. Believers dread the way of sinners; the best are sensible of the danger they are in of being drawn aside: we should all pray earnestly to God for his grace to keep us. Those who are careful not to partake with sinners in their sins, have reason to hope that they shall not receive their plagues. He speaks of the just judgments of the Lord on the workers of iniquity, ver. Psalms 28:4. This is not the langu...

Verse Psalms 28:2. _TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE._] דביר קדשך _debir kodshecha;_ _debir_ properly means that place in the holy of holies from which God gave oracular answers to the high priest. This is a presumptive proof that there was a _temple_ now standing; and the custom of stretching out the hands in prayer _towards the temple_, when the Jews were at a distance from it, is here referred to....

HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS - It was not mental prayer which he offered; it was a petition uttered audibly. WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS - To lift up the hands denotes supplication, as this was a common attitude in prayer. See the notes at 1 Timothy 2:8. TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE - Margin, as in Hebrew, “toward the oracle of thy holiness.” The word “oracle” as used here denotes the place where the answer to prayer is given. The Hebrew word - דביר _d__e__bı̂yr_ - means properly the inner sanctuary of the tabernacle or the temple, the place where God was supposed to reside, and where He gave responses to the prayers of His people: the same place which is elsewhere called the holy of holies. See the notes at...

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) a thanksgiving for aid given, or regarded as certain to be given (Psalms 28:6). Metrically, it contains three strophes, corresponding to the three subjects, and respectively of two, three, and four verses, thus gradually increasing in length. There is _no _reason for doubting the assertion of the title, that it is "a Psalm of David," but we cannot definitely assign it to any particular p

HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit; WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE; as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard; WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE: the holy of holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple, which was sometimes so called, 1 Kings 6:23; compared with 2 Chronicles 3:10; where were the ark, the mercy seat, and cherubim, between which the Lord dwelt, and gave responses to his people; or heaven itself, which the holy of holies was a figure of; where is the throne of God, and from whence he hears the prayers of his people d

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 like dead men ay, like lost men. Our fall or despair would be terrible indeed. «Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become Like them that go down into the pit.» Psalms 28:2. _Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle._ Is that the way you pray, dear friend? I know there are some that, if they have uttered certain good words got through a form of prayer are perfectly satisfied. As to whether God hears them or not, that does not trouble them. But if you are a true child of God, it will be your main thought in prayer, «

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) Psalms 28:1. Their cry now increaseth because of their enemies, the enemies of Israel in the last days. They breathe out cruelty to them (Psalms 27:12). They pass through the valley of the shadow of death and if He does not answer and remains silent they be like those that go down to the pit. Hence the imprecatory prayer, “Give them according to their deeds, etc.” ...

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 may be either a king or a high priest....