Psalms 28:9
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
In Context
8LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where thou have seen how that LORD thy God bore thee, as a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou brought out by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm.
2 Samuel 7:7In all places in which I have walked with all the sons of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, Why have ye not built for me a house of cedar?
1 Kings 8:51(for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);
Ezra 1:4And whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
Psalms 25:22Redeem Israel, O God, out all of his troubles.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 28:7-9
Devout Thanksgiving and Praise. 6 Blessed be the Lord , because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. 8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. In these verses, I. David gives God thanks for the audience of his prayers as… Read the whole commentary →