Psalms 28:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 28

¹A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalms 28:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 18:2
The 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 88:4-6
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: …
Psalms 83:1
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

In these verses David is very earnest in prayer. I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him, now that, in his distress, he called upon him, Ps. 28:1, 2. Observe his faith in prayer: O Lord, my rock, denoting his belief of God’s power (he is a rock) and his dependence upon that power—“He is my rock, on whom I build my hope.” Observe his fervency in prayer: “ To thee will I cry, as on…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Psa 28:1-9. An earnest cry for divine aid against his enemies, as being also those of God, is followed by the Psalmist’s praise in assurance of a favorable answer, and a prayer for all God’s people. 1. my rock--(Psa 18:2, 31). be not silent to me--literally, “from me,” deaf or inattentive. become like them, &c.--share their fate. go down into the pit--or, “grave” (Psa 30:3).