“ The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. ”
The Lord is their strength - Margin, “his strength.” The Hebrew is, “their strength,” or “strength to them.” The allusion is to the people of God. The course of thought seems to be, that the psal...
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.
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...
their . [strength] to His People. The letter Aleph being interchangeable with Ayin. This orthography is attested by some codices, and by Septuagint and Syriac. Thus agreeing with Psalms 29:11 . s...
8. Jehovah is their strength. By way of explanation, he repeats what he had said before, that God had been his strength; namely, because he had blessed his armies. David had indeed employed...
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. The Lord is their strength - Instead of למו lamo, to them, eight MSS. of Kennicott and De Rossi have לעמו leammo to his...
The Lord is their strength— The Lord is his guard; even he himself is the triumphant guard of his anointed. So Mudge; who observes, that the words are evidently spoken by the people, or priests,...
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. Their strength. "The Lord," whom he had called "my strength" ( Psalms 28:7 ), he now calls "their strength;" so whol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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? R...
The Lord [is] their strength ,.... The strength of his people, mentioned in Psalms 28:9 ; not only the strength of David in particular, but of all his people in general; see Psalms 37:39 ; and h...
The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed. Ver. 8. The Lord is their strength ] Not mine only, as Psalms 28:7 , but the strength of all and every one of the ho...
The Lord is their strength That is, the strength of his people, mentioned in the next verse. He is the saving strength Hebrews ישׁועות מעון, the strength of the preservations, deliverances , or...
Devout Thanksgiving and Praise. 6 Blessed be the L ORD , because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7 The...
Their strength, i.e. the strength of his people, mentioned in the next verse; the relative being put before the antecedent, which is left to be gathered out of the following matter, as it is Numb...
He Rejoices Because He Knows That YHWH Will Be The Protector Of All His People ( Psalms 28:8-9 ). But the Psalmist is not only concerned for himself. His concern is for all God's people. And he re...
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...
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...
Blessed be the Lord, because He hath heard. A thanksgiving truly inspired These verses throw light upon the religious experience of the psalmist, and from them we learn-- I. That his experie...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 16:13 ; Isaiah 61:1 ; Psalms 2:2 ; Psalms 20:6