Psalms 28:1
A Psalm of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.
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Psalms 3:4I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 18:2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Psalms 30:4Sing to the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
Psalms 35:22This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.
Psalms 42:9I will say to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 77:1To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.
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 →