Psalms 28:9
Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
In Context
8The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.
Deuteronomy 9:29But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.
2 Samuel 7:7In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?
1 Kings 8:51For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;
Ezra 1:4And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.
Psalms 25:22Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all 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 →