Psalms 28:7

_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. He anticipates his deliverance as already accomplished, because of the assurance of faith which Yahweh had given him in answer to prayer. Therefore, he joyfully praises Him....

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 in due time greatly rejoice: we are to expect joy and peace in believing. God shall have the praise of it: thus must we express our gratitude. The saints rejoice in others' comfort as well as their own: we have the less benefit from the light of the sun, nor from the light of God's countenance, for others' sharing therein. The psalmist concludes with a short, but comprehensive prayer. God's people are his inheritance, and precious in his eyes. He prays that God would save them; that he would bless them with all good, especially the plenty of his ordinances, which are food to the soul. And direct their actions and overrule their affairs for good. Also, lift them up for ever; not only those of...

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 59:11; Psalms 84:9; Psalms 89:18; Genesis 15:1. MY HEART TRUSTED IN HIM - I trusted or confided in him. See...

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

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 strength of his life, spiritual and temporal, and of his salvation; the strength of his heart under present distresses, and who he knew would be so in the hour of death, when his heart and strength would fail; AND MY SHIELD; to protect and defend him; as were the love, power, and faithfulness of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, his power and fulness, his blood, righteousness, and salvation; MY HEART TRUSTED IN HIM; in the Lord as his strength and shield; not in any creature, nor in his own strength and righteousness; but in the Lord God, in whom are righteousness and strength: and it is plain he did not trust in his own heart, since his heart trusted in the Lord; and which shows that hi...

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....

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 future....

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 subsequently as a grateful memorial of his deliverance? Either alternative is possible; but here and in Psalms 31:21-24 we seem to have a record of actual deliverance, Psalms 6:8 ff. is somewhat different....