Psalms 28:9
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
World English Bible
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. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness where you have seen how that the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”
2 Samuel 7:7In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to anyone from the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, ‘Why have you not built me a house of cedar?’”’
1 Kings 8:51(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);
Ezra 1:4Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”
Psalms 25:22God, redeem Israel 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 →