Chapter 28

Verse 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.

to

Heb. from. I become.

30:9 69:15 88:4-6 143:7 Job 33:28 Proverbs 1:12 Isaiah 38:18 Revelation 20:3

Verse 2

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

when

63:4 125:5 134:2 141:2 143:6 2 Chronicles 6:13 1 Timothy 2:8

thy holy oracle

or, the oracle of thy sanctuary.

5:7 138:2 1 Kings 6:19,22,23 8:6-8,28-30,38 Daniel 6:10

Verse 3

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Draw

26:9 Numbers 16:26 Matthew 25:41,46

speak

12:2 55:21 62:4 Jeremiah 9:8,9 Micah 3:5 Matthew 22:15-18

mischief

7:14 10:7,14 36:4 52:1 Proverbs 26:23-26

Verse 4

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

5:10 59:12,13 69:22-24 Jeremiah 18:21-23 2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 18:6

and

2:1-5 21:10 Ezekiel 38:10

the work

62:12 103:10 109:17-21 103:3,4 Romans 2:6-8 11:22

render

Ezra 9:13

Verse 5

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Because

10:5 92:4-6 104:24 111:2-4 Job 34:26,27 Isaiah 5:12 22:11 Isaiah 26:9-11 Hosea 14:9 John 12:37 Romans 1:20,28

operation

8:3 19:1,2 Numbers 23:23 Isaiah 40:26 45:8,12,18 Jeremiah 10:12,13 Ephesians 1:19-21

not build

2 Samuel 7:13,27 1 Kings 11:38 Jeremiah 31:4 32:20,21

Verse 6

Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

31:21,22 66:19,20 69:33,34 107:19-22 116:1,2 118:5

Verse 7

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.