Psalms 28
28
My Strength and Shield
David’s poetic praise to God
My Defender
1I’m pleading with you, Yahweh, help me! # 28:1 This psalm was likely written when David was exiled because of the rebellion of his son Absalom. He was not longing and looking for his throne but for God’s throne (see v. 2).
Don’t close your ears to my cry, for you’re my defender. # 28:1 Or “my rocky summit.”
If you continue to remain aloof and refuse to answer me,
I might as well give up and die.
2Hear my cry for help as I turn toward your mercy seat,
as I lift my hands toward your sacred sanctuary.
3Don’t allow me to be punished along with the wicked—
these hypocrites who speak sweetly to their neighbors’ faces
while holding evil against them in their hearts.
My Vindication
4Go ahead and punish them as they deserve.
Let them be paid back for all their evil plans
in proportion to their wickedness.
5Since they don’t care anything about you,
or understand the great things you’ve done,
take them down like an old building being demolished,
never again to be rebuilt.
6But Yahweh, may your name be blessed and built up!
For you have answered my passionate cry for mercy.
My Strength
7Yahweh is my strength and my wraparound shield.
When I fully trust in you, help is on the way.
I jump for joy and burst forth with ecstatic, passionate praise!
I will sing songs of what you mean to me!
8You will be the inner strength of all your people,
Yahweh, the mighty protector of all,
and the saving strength for all your anointed ones.
9Save your people whom you love, and bless your chosen ones.
Be our shepherd leading us forward,
forever carrying us in your arms!
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Petition and Thanksgiving
1Of David.
I
To you, Lord, I call;
my Rock, do not be deaf to me,#Ps 18:2.
Do not be silent toward me,
so that I join those who go down to the pit.#Ps 30:4; 88:5; 143:7; Prv 1:12.
2Hear the sound of my pleading when I cry to you for help
when I lift up my hands toward your holy place.#Your holy place: the innermost part of the Temple, the holy of holies, containing the ark, cf. 1 Kgs 6:16, 19–23; 8:6–8.#Ps 134:2.
3Do not drag me off with the wicked,
with those who do wrong,#Ps 26:9.
Who speak peace to their neighbors
though evil is in their hearts.#Ps 12:2; 55:22; 62:5; Prv 26:24–28.
4Repay them for their deeds,
for the evil that they do.
For the work of their hands repay them;
give them what they deserve.#2 Sm 3:39.
5Because they do not understand the Lord’s works,
the work of his hands,#Is 5:12.
He will tear them down,
never to rebuild them.
II
6#The psalmist shifts to fervent thanksgiving, probably responding to a priestly or prophetic oracle in Ps 28:5cd (not usually transmitted) assuring the worshiper that the prayer has been heard.Blessed be the Lord,
who has heard the sound of my pleading.
7The Lord is my strength and my shield,
in whom my heart trusts.
I am helped, so my heart rejoices;
with my song I praise him.
III
8#Your people…your anointed: salvation is more than individual, affecting all the people and their God-given leader. Lord, you are a strength for your people,
the saving refuge of your anointed.
9Save your people, bless your inheritance;
pasture and carry them forever!
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