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Psalms 28:6,7

Thanksgiving succeeds to prayer. Are we to suppose that faith realises the answer to its prayer as already granted, and can give thanks accordingly? or that this conclusion was added by the Psalmist subsequently as a grateful memorial of his deliverance? Either alternative is possible; but here and in Psalms 31:21-24 we seem to have a record of actual deliverance, Psalms 6:8 ff. is somewhat different.

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See also Psalms 28:6,7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BLESSED BE THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HATH HEARD THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS - This is one of those passages which frequently occur in the Psalms, when there has been an earnest and anxious prayer offered...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BLESSED BE THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HATH HEARD THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS._ Assurance follows prayer in God's appointed order. BLESSED BE THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HATH HEARD. The thanksgiving is in the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    This burst of thanksgiving, breaking in on the poet’s prayer, has led to the supposition that an interval elapsed between the composition of the former part of the psalm and this verse, and that the w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּר֥וּךְ יְהוָ֑ה כִּי ־שָׁ֝מַע קֹ֣ול תַּחֲנוּנָֽי׃...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (f) Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. (f) Because he felt the assurance of God's help in his heart, his mouth was opened to sing his praises....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Shall reduce them to pieces, &c. In Hebrew, shall make them to skip like a calf. The psalmist here describes the effects of thunder, (which he calls the voice of the Lord) which sometimes breaks down...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a sweet hosanna. It was first sung by Christ, and may be well sung by all his redeemed in him. Reader, do not overtook the benediction in the close of it. Is not this another view of Jesus? Re...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._Blessed be Jehovah, who hath heard. _This is the second part of the psalm in which the prophet begins to give thanks to God. We have already seen how he employed himself in prayer in the midst of h...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BLESSED [BE] THE LORD,.... Which must be understood, not as invoking nor as conferring a blessing on him, neither of which can be done by a creature; nor does he stand in need of any, he being Elshadd...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. Ver. 6. _Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard, &c._] God will one day turn the prayers of his people into praises. Da...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Blessed be the Lord_, &c. How soon are the sorrows of the saints turned into joy, and their prayers into praises! It was in faith David prayed, Psalms 28:2, _Hear the voice of my supplication_, and b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Blessed be the Lord because He hath heard the voice of my supplications, his cries for mercy, the believer being sure even in advance of being heard....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-9 Has God heard our supplications? Let us then bless his name. The Lord is my strength, to support me, and carry me on through all my services and sufferings. The heart that truly believes, shall i...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He speaks of it as past, either because God had in part heard and answered him already, or because God assured him by his Spirit that he had heard and accepted his prayers, and would assuredly answer...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 28:6 Blessed H1288 (H8803) LORD H3068 heard H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 supplications H8469 Supplications - 3's...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE REJOICES BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT YHWH HAS HEARD HIM AND WILL BE HIS STRENGTH (PSALMS 28:6). His thoughts now become more positive. The negative was necessary, but now he begins to look upward. He has...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Blessed be the Lord, because He hath heard._ A THANKSGIVING TRULY INSPIRED These verses throw light upon the religious experience of the psalmist, and from them we learn-- I. That his experience t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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),

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:6 The psalm ends with confidence that God will protect his PEOPLE and his ANOINTED (the Davidic king, who represents and embodies the whole people; see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Psalms 107:19; Psalms 116:1; Psalms 116:2; Psalms 118:5; Psalms 3

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