A psalm of David
28
📚To you I will cry out, O LORD my rock 📖;
do not be silent to me.
For if you are silent
to me,
I will become like those
who go down into the pit.
2 📚Hear the voice of my
supplications,
when I cry out to you,
when I lift up
my hands toward your
holy sanctuary.
3 📚Do not drag me away
with the wicked,
and with those who do evil,
who speak peacefully
to their neighbours,
but who have
wickedness in their hearts.
4 📚Give to them according
to their deeds,
and according to the wickedness
of their actions;
give to them according to
the work of their hands.
Pay them back what
they deserve.
5 📚Because they show no regard
for the works of the LORD,
or for what his hands have done,
he will destroy them,
and not build them up.
28:5 David wants the wicked punished, not because they had injured him, but because of their attitude toward God. When he called on God to judge his enemies it was not out of a spirit of personal vengeance.⚜
6 📚Blessed be the LORD,
because he has 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
rejoices,
and I will praise him
with my song.
28:7 See Ps 3:3; 5:12; 18:35; 32:7, 10; 33:20; Gen 15:1; Job 1:10. Nothing can come from outside to God’s chosen people that God does not permit. He shields them from all that is not His will for them. He Himself is their protection against Satan and evil men. What a joy this is to the trusting heart.⚜
8 📚The LORD is their strength,
and he is the saving
stronghold of his anointed.
28:8 See Ps 18:1; 21:1; 68:28; 84:5; Ex 15:2; Isa 12:2; 40:31; 1 Chron 16:11. David was anointed king over Israel, but we can see here also David’s Son, the Lord Jesus, the anointed One. All that happened to Christ was in the will of God (John 18:11; Acts 2:22-23).⚜
9 📚Save your people,
and bless your inheritance,
and shepherd 📖 them,
and carry them forever.