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Psalms 28:2 Darby English Bible (DARBY)

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

Cross Reference

Psalms 141:2 DARBY

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

Psalms 138:2 DARBY

I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

Psalms 5:7 DARBY

But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

1 Timothy 2:8 DARBY

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

Psalms 134:2 DARBY

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.

Psalms 140:6 DARBY

I have said unto Jehovah, Thou art my ùGod: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.

Psalms 143:6 DARBY

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, [thirsteth] after thee. Selah.

Daniel 6:10 DARBY

And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and, his windows being open in his upper chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Lamentations 2:19 DARBY

Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

1 Kings 6:19 DARBY

And he prepared the oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

Psalms 125:5 DARBY

But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalms 63:4 DARBY

So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.

2 Chronicles 6:13 DARBY

For Solomon had made a platform of bronze, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and he kneeled down on his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens,

1 Kings 8:38 DARBY

what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;

1 Kings 8:28-30 DARBY

Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day; that thine eyes may be open upon this house night and day, upon the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. And hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place, and hear thou in thy dwelling-place, in the heavens, and when thou hearest, forgive.

1 Kings 8:6-8 DARBY

And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim; for the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above. And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle, but they were not seen without. And there they are to this day.

1 Kings 6:22-23 DARBY

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, the whole house entirely; also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. And he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive-wood, ten cubits high;

Commentary on Psalms 28 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible


PSALM 28

Ps 28:1-9. An earnest cry for divine aid against his enemies, as being also those of God, is followed by the Psalmist's praise in assurance of a favorable answer, and a prayer for all God's people.

1. my rock—(Ps 18:2, 31).

be not silent to me—literally, "from me," deaf or inattentive.

become like them, &c.—share their fate.

go down into the pit—or, "grave" (Ps 30:3).

2. lift up my hands—a gesture of prayer (Ps 63:4; 141:2).

oracle—place of speaking (Ex 25:22; Nu 7:89), where God answered His people (compare Ps 5:7).

3. Draw me not away—implies punishment as well as death (compare Ps 26:9). Hypocrisy is the special wickedness mentioned.

4. The imprecation is justified in Ps 28:5. The force of the passage is greatly enhanced by the accumulation of terms describing their sin.

endeavours—points out their deliberate sinfulness.

5. Disregard of God's judgments brings a righteous punishment.

destroy … build … up—The positive strengthened by the negative form.

6. supplications—or, "cries for mercy."

7. The repetition of "heart" denotes his sincerity.

8. The distinction made between the people.

their strength—and the anointed—may indicate Absalom's rebellion as the occasion.

9. The special prayer for the people sustains this view.

feed them—as a shepherd (Ps 23:1, &c.).