Introduction
A Psalm of David.
The resemblance of this to the preceding psalm probably determined its place in the Psalter, and it is generally conceded to belong to the same author and the same general date and occasion. Like that, it has two principal divisions, the one of prayer, the other of joyful hope and praise, but with this difference: that begins with praise and ends with prayer; this begins with prayer and ends with praise. The prayer, (Psalms 28:1-5,) is subdivided into an earnest request to be heard, Psalms 28:1-2; a deprecation of being involved in the doom of the wicked, Psalms 28:3; and a plea against enemies, Psalms 28:4-5. Psalms 28:6-8, are an offering of praise for the answer of prayer, either apprehended by faith or foretokened by some event as an omen of complete victory. The psalmist closes, Psalms 28:9, in the true spirit of a theocratic king, with a petition for God’s Israel.
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