Psalms 28:9
Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all.
Deuteronomy 9:29Who are thy people and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out by thy great strength, and in thy stretched out arm.
2 Samuel 7:7In all the places that I have gone through with all the children of Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar?
1 Kings 8:51For they are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.
Ezra 1:4And let all the restin all places wheresoever they dwell, help him every man from his place. with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in Jerusalem.
Psalms 25:22Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.
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 →