Psalms 28:8

_THE LORD IS THEIR STRENGTH, AND HE IS THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS ANOINTED._ Their strength. "The Lord," whom he had called "my strength" (Psalms 28:7), he now calls "their strength;" so wholly identified is his cause with that of his people. HE IS THE SAVING STRENGTH - literally, the strength of saving deliverances. In saving his anointed king, God saves the people over whom He has anointed him (Psalms 18:50; cf. Psalms 28:9)....

8._Jehovah is their strength. _By way of explanation, he repeats what he had said before, that God had been his strength; namely, because he had blessed his armies. David had indeed employed the hand and labor of men, but to God alone he ascribes the victory. As he knew that whatever help he had obtained from men proceeded from God, and that his prosperous success flowed likewise from his gratuitous favor, he discerned his hand in these means, as palpably as if it had been stretched forth from heaven. And surely it is passing shameful, that human means, which are only the instruments of God’s power, should obscure his glory; although there is no sin more common. It is a manner of speaking which has great weight, when, speaking of his soldiers, he uses only the pronoun _their, _as if he pointed to them with the finger. The second clause assigns the reason of the other. He declares that hi...

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 28:8. _THE LORD_ IS _THEIR STRENGTH_] Instead of למו _lamo, to_ _them_, eight MSS. of _Kennicott_ and _De Rossi_ have לעמו _leammo, to his people_; and this reading is confirmed by the _Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, AEthiopic, Arabic_, and _Anglo-Saxon_. This makes the passage more precise and intelligible; and of the truth of the reading there can be no reasonable doubt. "The Lord is the strength of his PEOPLE, and the saving strength of his anointed." Both _king_ and _people_ are protected, upheld, and saved by him....

THE LORD IS THEIR STRENGTH - Margin, “his strength.” The Hebrew is, “their strength,” or “strength to them.” The allusion is to the people of God. The course of thought seems to be, that the psalmist, having derived in his own case assistance from God, or having found God a strength to him, his mind turns from this fact to the general idea that God was the strength of “all” who were in similar circumstancaes; or that all His people might confide in Him as he had done. AND HE IS THE SAVING STRENGTH - Margin, as in Hebrew, “strength of salvations.” That is, In Him is found the strength which produces salvation. See the notes at Psalms 27:1. OF HIS ANOINTED - See Psalms 2:2, note;...

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] THEIR STRENGTH,.... The strength of his people, mentioned in Psalms 28:9; not only the strength of David in particular, but of all his people in general; see Psalms 37:39; AND HE [IS] THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS ANOINTED; meaning either himself, as before, who was anointed by Samuel king of Israel, and therefore had not invaded and thrust himself into an office he had no call and right unto; or the Messiah, the Lord's Anointed, whom he heard, helped, and strengthened in the day of salvation, and delivered him from the power of death and the grave, and raised him from thence, and gave him glory; see Psalms 20:6....

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....

THEIR. [strength] to His People. The letter Aleph being interchangeable with Ayin. This orthography is attested by some codices, and by Septuagint and Syriac. Thus agreeing with Psalms 29:11. SAVING STRENGTH. great saving strength. Hebrew "strength of salvations". Plural of majesty. OF. to. HIS ANOINTED. His Messiah, as in Psalms 2:2....