Psalms 28:1
To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.
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Psalms 3:4I cry to LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 18:2LORD 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.
Psalms 30:4Sing praise to LORD, O ye sanctified of his, and give thanks to his holiness.
Psalms 35:22Thou have seen it, O LORD. Keep not silence. O LORD, be not far from me.
Psalms 42:9I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 77:1I will cry to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and he will give ear to me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 28:1
The former part of this psalm is the prayer of a saint militan and now in distress ( ver. 1-3 ), to which is added the doom of God's implacable enemies, ver. 4, 5 . The latter part of the psalm is the thanksgiving of a saint triumphant, and delivered out of his distresses ( ver. 6-8 ), to which is added a prophetical prayer for all God's faithful loyal subjects, ver. 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… Read the whole commentary →