Psalms 28:1
Of David. My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
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Psalms 3:4\3:3\But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.
Psalms 18:2\18:1\I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.
Psalms 30:4\30:3\O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
Psalms 35:22You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.
Psalms 42:9\42:8\But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 77:1To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.
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 →