Psalms 28:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thine inheritance; Israel, for whom I pray; partly because thou hast in some sort committed them to my charge, and partly because Saul did not take due care of them. Lift them up; raise them out of their low and afflicted condition, in which they are, by reason of Saul's weakness and neglect, and by the prevailing power of the Philistines, and advance them to a state of safety and honour, and that not for a season, but with constancy and perpetuity, as it follows.