George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 28:4
Power and magnificence. The sacraments of confirmation and the blessed Eucharist, or the wonderful propagation of the Church, amid violent persecutions. (Berthier)
Power and magnificence. The sacraments of confirmation and the blessed Eucharist, or the wonderful propagation of the Church, amid violent persecutions. (Berthier)
Verse Psalms 28:4. _GIVE THEM_] Is the same as _thou wilt give them_; a prophetic declaration of what their lot will be....
GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve. AND ACCORDING TO THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR ENDEAVOURS - Their designs; their works; their plans. GIVE...
Psalms 28 Prayer For Judgment and Praise For the Answer _ 1. Prayer for judgment (Psalms 28:1)_ 2. Praise for the answer (Psalms 28:6)...
XXVIII. Prayer for deliverance from godless Jews, and for vengeance upon them. The Ps. ends with thanksgiving and prayer for ruler and people. Psalms 28:2. Read _mg._ Psalms 28:4. Yahweh's anointed...
THEM. Note the Figure of speech _Repetitio_ (App-6), for emphasis deeds. deed, or work. ENDEAVOURS. practices. work. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "works" (plural)...
The Psalmist's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and that they may be judged as they deserve....
Give them according to their work, And according to the evil of their doings: Give them according to the operation of their hands. This is not a vindictive craving for personal revenge, but a solem...
RENDER TO THEM THEIR DESERT— _Their own rendering;_ as they have rendered to others. This verse would be translated better in the future: _Thou wilt give them,_ &c. See the next verse....
PSALMS 28 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Turned into Praise. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 28:1-2, Prayer Boldly Pleads the Feared Result of Refusal to Answer. Stanza II., Psalms 28:3-4 (with addition,...
_GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS, AND ACCORDING TO THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR ENDEAVOURS: GIVE THEM AFTER THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS; RENDER TO THEM THEIR DESERT._ Give them. "Them:" the wicked, enemies...
This Ps. is in many respects similar to Psalms 26, especially in the writer's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and may escape their fate; and in the confidence which he reaches in...
DEEDS] RV 'work.' ENDEAVOURS] RV 'doings.' WORK] RV' operation.' These changes bring out the intended contrast between this v. and the next....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS. — The justice of the _lex talionis_ was deeply impressed on the mind of Israel, and we need not wonder to find its enforcement made the subject of prayer. A general...
תֶּן ־לָהֶ֣ם כְּ פָעֳלָם֮ וּ כְ רֹ֪עַ
Psalms 28:1 THE unquestionable resemblances to Psalms 26:1 scarcely require that this should be considered its companion. The differences are as obvious as the likenesses. While the prayer "Draw me no...
A PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER Psalms 28:1 This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom's rebellion. Psalms 28:2 resemble Psalms 26:8. God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably,...
The affinity between this psalm and the previous one is evident and its placing by the editor here was in all likelihood due to that fact. In Psalms 27:1, in true order, praise prepares for, and issue...
(d) Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. (d) He thus prayed in respect to God...
Jesus felt this, in the days of his flesh, of the deceitfulness of men. Matthew 22:15....
4._Give them according to their works. _Having thus requested God to have a regard to his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his enemies. And the accumulation of words shows that h...
Psalms 28. The godly Jew pleads, in the time of trouble come on the nation, that he may not be confounded with the wicked. If Jehovah did not appear in his behalf, so much was he in the same distress...
GIVE THEM ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS,.... According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal; AND ACCORDING TO THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR ENDEAVOURS; for though wicked men do not always...
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Ver. 4. _Give them according to their de...
_Give them according to their deeds_, &c. It is fit that they should suffer as they have acted, and reap the fruit of their manifold wickedness. _Give them after the work of their hands_, &c. Dispense...
PRAYER AND COMFORT IN TIMES OF REBELLION. A psalm of David, written in similar circumstances as the two foregoing ones, his heart apparently being so full that his mouth was bound to speak, David in...
Give them according to their deeds, all that their wickedness deserved, AND ACCORDING TO THE WICKEDNESS, the evil and hypocrisy, OF THEIR ENDEAVORS; GIVE THEM AFTER THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS, paying the...
1-5 David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest till they have received some token that their prayers are heard. H...
David useth these imprecations, partly, to vindicate himself from the slanders of his enemies, who reported him to be as wicked as they were, only more close and cunning therein; which, if he had been...
Psalms 28:4 Give H5414 (H8798) deeds H6467 wickedness H7455 endeavors H4611 Give H5414 (H8798) work H4639 hands...
THE PSALMIST EARNESTLY CALLS ON GOD TO HEAR HIS PRAYER (PSALMS 28:1). In each of these two verses the ideas fall into an abbc pattern, with each central idea then being repeated in another form. Note...
Psalms 28:1. _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._ Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should become...
CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from enemies and testimony as to answered prayer. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The Lord is our strength to support us in either service or suffering, as well...
Psalms 28:5. _He shall destroy them, and not build them up._ David often foresaw that Saul's army and party would perish in war. This prayer, Psalms 28:4, is in unison with the forms of prayer used in...
_Give them according to their deeds._ SAINTS DESIRE GOD TO PUNISH SINNERS I. why impenitent sinners deserve to be punished. Their wickedness lies in their endeavours, or intentions, to do evil. All...
_Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock._ THE PRAYER OF A SAINT IN DISTRESS I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him now that, in his distress, he called upon him (Psalms 28:1). Obser...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:1. This is a lament, a cry for help during the threat posed by evildoers. The threat is probably to the whole community (vv. Psalms 28:8),
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:3 The WICKED here are not simply people who commit sins, for even the faithful do that (see Psalms 32:6). The wicked are those who oppose God and
INTRODUCTION Hitsig and others have assigned this psalm to Jeremiah, but there does not seem to be thy sufficient reason for questioning the traditional title which gives it to David. It may have been...
EXPOSITION This short psalm consists of three parts: (1) a prayer for succour (Psalms 28:1, Psalms 28:2); (2) a denunciation of the wicked (Psalms 28:3); and (3
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent, I become like those that have gone down into the pit. Hear my voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when...
2 Timothy 4:14; Ezekiel 38:10; Ezra 9:13; Jeremiah 18:21; Psalm