1 Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.
and cast him into the abyss, and shut `it', and sealed `it' over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed for a little time.
Trust ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, `even' Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
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Commentary on Psalms 28 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 28
The former part of this psalm is the prayer of a saint militan and now in distress (v. 1-3), to which is added the doom of God's implacable enemies (v. 4, 5). The latter part of the psalm is the thanksgiving of a saint triumphant, and delivered out of his distresses (v. 6-8), to which is added a prophetical prayer for all God's faithful loyal subjects (v. 9). So that it is hard to say which of these two conditions David was in when he penned it. Some think he was now in trouble seeking God, but at the same time preparing to praise him for his deliverance, and by faith giving him thanks for it, before it was wrought. Others think he was now in triumph, but remembered, and recorded for his own and others' benefit, the prayers he made when he was in affliction, that the mercy might relish the better, when it appeared to be an answer to them.
A psalm of David.
Psa 28:1-5
In these verses David is very earnest in prayer.
In singing this we must arm ourselves against all temptations to join with the workers of iniquity, and animate ourselves against all the troubles we may be threatened with by the workers of iniquity.
Psa 28:6-9
In these verses,