Psalms 28:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. ”

• Psalms 28:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Give them according to their deeds - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve. And according to the wickedness of their endeavours - Their designs; their works; their plans...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (d) Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. (d) He thus prayed in respect to Go...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  them. Note the Figure of speech Repetitio (App-6), for emphasis deeds. deed, or work. endeavours . practices. work. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)

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• Psalms 28:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Give them according to their works. Having thus requested God to have a regard to his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his enemies. And the accumulation of words sho...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Give them - Is the same as thou wilt giv...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Render to them their desert— Their own rendering; as they have rendered to others. This verse would be translated better in the future: Thou wilt give them, &c. See the next verse.

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• Psalms 28:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Give them. "Them:" the wicked, e...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This Ps. is in many respects similar to Psalms 26 , especially in the writer's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and may escape their fate; and in the confidence which he reaches...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Give them according to their deeds. — The justice of the lex talionis was deeply impressed on the mind of Israel, and we need not wonder to find its enforcement made the subject of prayer. A gene...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 28:1-9 THE 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...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 28:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The affinity between this psalm and the previous one is evident and its placing by the editor here was in all likelihood due to that fact. In Psalms 27:1-14 , in true order, praise prepares for, and...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Jesus felt this, in the days of his flesh, of the deceitfulness of men. Matthew 22:15-18 .

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• Psalms 28:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Give them according to their deeds ,.... According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal; and according to the wickedness of their endeavours ; for though wicked men do not al...

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• Psalms 28:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Ver. 4. Give them according to their...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Give them according to their deeds , &c. It is fit that they should suffer as they have acted, and reap the fruit of their manifold wickedness. Give them after the work of their hands , &c....

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• Psalms 28:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David.       1 Unto thee will I cry, O L ORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  David useth these imprecations, partly, to vindicate himself from the slanders of his enemies, who reported him to be as wicked as they were, only more close and cunning therein; which, if he had bee...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Psalmist Earnestly Calls On God To Hear His Prayer ( Psalms 28:1-3 ). In each of these two verses the ideas fall into an abbc pattern, with each central idea then being repeated in another for...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Hitsig and others have assigned this psalm to Jeremiah, but there does not seem to be thy sufficient reason for questioning the traditional title which gives it to David. It may have be...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 28:1 . 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. Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should bec...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Psalms 28:5 . He shall destroy them, and not build them up. David often foresaw that Saul's army and party would perish in war. This prayer, Psalms 28:4-5 , is in unison with the forms of prayer...

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• Psalms 28:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock. The prayer of a saint in distress I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him now that, in his distress, he called upon him ( Psalms 28:1-2 )...

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• Psalms 28:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 28:3-19 ); and (3) a thanksgivi...

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• Psalms 28:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 28:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Timothy 4:14 ; Ezekiel 38:10 ; Ezra 9:13 ; Jeremiah 18:21-23 ; Psalms 103:10 ; Psalms 103:3 ; Psalms 103:4 ; Psalms 109:17-21 ; Psalms 2:1-5 ; Psalms 21:10 ; Psalms 5:10 ; Psalms 59:12...

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