Psalms 28:1
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Psalms 3:4But thou, O Lord art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Psalms 18:2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
Psalms 30:4Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 35:22Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent : O Lord, depart not from me.
Psalms 42:9In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 77:1Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph.
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 →