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Psalm 28
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Psalm of David.
1Unto thee will I
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3Draw me not
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5Because they
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Footnotes
The LORD Is My Strength
Of David.
1To You, O LORD, I call;be not deaf to me, O my Rock.For if You remain silent,I will be like those descending to the Pit. 2Hear my cry for mercywhen I call to You for help,when I lift up my handstoward Your holy sanctuary.footnote a
3Do not drag me away with the wicked,and with the workers of iniquity,who speak peace to their neighborswhile malice is in their hearts. 4Repay them according to their deedsand for their works of evil.Repay them for what their hands have done;bring back on them what they deserve. 5Since they show no regard for the works of the LORDor what His hands have done,He will tear them downand never rebuild them.
6Blessed be the LORD,for He has heard my cry for mercy. 7The LORD is my strength and my shield;my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.Therefore my heart rejoices,and I give thanks to Him with my song.
8The LORD is the strength of His people,a stronghold of salvation for His anointed. 9Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;shepherd them and carry them forever.
Footnotes
- a 28:2 Or Your innermost sanctuary or Your Most Holy Place
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