{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa028.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa028.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nmy rock-- (Psa 18:2, Psa 18:31).\nbe not silent to me--literally, \"from me,\" deaf or inattentive.\nbecome like them, &c.--share their fate.\ngo down into the pit--or, \"grave\" (Psa 30:3).\nlift up my hands--a gesture of prayer (Psa 63:4; Psa 141:2).\noracle--place of speaking (Exo 25:22; Num 7:89), where God answered His people (compare Psa 5:7).\nDraw me not away--implies punishment as well as death (compare Psa 26:9). Hypocrisy is the special wickedness mentioned.\nThe imprecation is justified in Psa 28:5. The force of the passage is greatly enhanced by the accumulation of terms describing their sin.\nendeavours--points out their deliberate sinfulness.\nDisregard of God's judgments brings a righteous punishment.\ndestroy . . . build . . . up--The positive strengthened by the negative form.\nsupplications--or, \"cries for mercy.\"\nThe repetition of \"heart\" denotes his sincerity.\nThe distinction made between the people.\ntheir strength--and the anointed--may indicate Absalom's rebellion as the occasion.\nThe special prayer for the people sustains this view.\nfeed them--as a shepherd (Psa 23:1, &c.).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the...","type":"page"}