psalm-28:8-nkjv

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 28:8

(8) Their strength—i.e., the strength of His people, who are throughout in the poet’s thought, even if it is the individual and not the community that speaks. The LXX. and Vulg. read (comp. Psalms 29:11) “to his people.”Saving strength.—Better, stronghold of salvation. (See margin.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 28:1-9THE unquestionable resemblances to Psalms 26:1-12 scarcely require that this should be considered its companion. The differences are as obvious as the likenesses. While the prayer "Draw me not away with the wicked" and the characterisation of these are alike in both, the further emphatic prayer for retribution here and the closing half of this psalm have nothing corresponding to them in the other. This psalm is built on the familiar plan of groups of two verses each, with the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 28:0 Prayer For Judgment and Praise For the Answer 1. Prayer for judgment (Psalms 28:1-5 ) 2. Praise for the answer (Psalms 28:6-9 ) Psalms 28:1-5 . 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... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 28:8

28:8 The LORD [is] {g} their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.(g) Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God declared his power. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 28:6-9

Here is a sweet hosanna. It was first sung by Christ, and may be well sung by all his redeemed in him. Reader, do not overtook the benediction in the close of it. Is not this another view of Jesus? Remember how Aaron was commanded to bless the people, as a type of Christ, in his everlasting priesthood. Numbers 6:22 , etc. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 28:6-9

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... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 28:1-9

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 this case including himself with the people of God in praying against the oppression of the wicked and the unbelievers. v. 1. 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... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 28:1-9

Psalms 28:0A Psalm of David1 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.2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity,Which speak peace to their neighbors,But mischief is in their hearts.4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 28:1-9

a Prayer and Its Answer Psalms 28:1-9 This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. Psalms 28:2-3 resemble Psalms 26:8-9 . God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably, Zephaniah 3:17 , r.v., margin; sometimes to test our faith, Matthew 15:23 ; sometimes because He has already spoken and we have not listened, Matthew 26:62 . But let us never go elsewhere for help, 1 Samuel 28:6-7 . Let us wait and pray, lifting up our hands in the dark to touch His hands.... read more