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Psalms 28:9
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Save your people! Bless Israel, your special possession. Lead them like a shepherd, and carry them in your arms forever.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and bear them up for ever.
Save your people, and bless your inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
Save your people and bless those who are your own. Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Deliver your people! Empower the nation that belongs to you! Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!
Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Lord, make thou saaf thi puple, and blesse thou thin eritage; and reule thou hem, and enhaunse thou hem til in to with outen ende.
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
Come save us and bless us. Be our shepherd and always carry us in your arms.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
Save your people! Bless your heritage! Shepherd them, and carry them forever!
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.
Save your people. Bless those who belong to you. Lead them and honor them forever.
Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; {P}
Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance, feede them also, and lift them vp for euer.
Save Your people and bring good to what is Yours. Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
O save your people, and bless your heritage; be their shepherd, and carry them forever.
Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance: feede them also, and exalt them for euer.
Save thy people, O LORD, and bless thine inheritance; shepherd them also, and take care of them for ever,
Save your people, Lord , and bless those who are yours. Be their shepherd, and take care of them forever.
Oh save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, Tend them also, and carry them, Unto times age-abiding.
(27-9) Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.
O save thy people, and bless thy heritage; be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.
O saue thy people, and geue thy blessing vnto thine inheritaunce: feede them and exalt them for euermore.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.
Save your people, bless your possession,shepherd them, and carry them forever.
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Save your people and bless your heritage. Shepherd them also and carry them always.
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance and feed them, and lift them up forever.
Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!
The LORDE is the strength of his people, he is the defender and Sauioure of his anoynted. O helpe thy people, geue thy blessynge vnto thy enheritaunce: fede them, and set them vp for euer.
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
Save Your people and bless Your inheritance;Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Save: Psalms 14:7, Psalms 25:22, Psalms 80:14-19, Jeremiah 31:7
bless: Deuteronomy 9:29, 2 Samuel 21:3, 1 Kings 8:51, 1 Kings 8:53, Jeremiah 10:16, Ephesians 1:18
feed: or, rule, Psalms 78:71, 2 Samuel 7:7, Isaiah 40:11, Ezekiel 34:23, Ezekiel 34:24, Micah 5:2, Micah 5:4, Micah 7:14, Matthew 2:6,*marg.
lift: Ezra 1:4, *marg.
Reciprocal: Exodus 34:9 - take us Deuteronomy 4:20 - a people Deuteronomy 26:15 - bless thy Psalms 29:11 - give Psalms 30:1 - for Psalms 33:12 - his own Psalms 67:1 - bless us Jeremiah 31:23 - The Lord James 4:10 - he Revelation 7:17 - feed
Cross-References
When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite as his wives;
And behold, the LORD stood above and around him and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your [father's] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.
So he was afraid and said, "How fearful and awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven."
These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah, daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Save thy people,.... The psalmist begins the psalm with petitions for himself, and closes it with prayers for the people of God; whom God has chosen for his people, taken into covenant to be his people, and given them to his son as such; these he has resolved to save, and has appointed Christ, and sent him into the world, to be the Saviour of them; and to them he makes known and applies the great salvation by his Spirit: so that this prayer was a prayer of faith, as are also the following petitions;
and bless thine inheritance; the people whom the Lord has chosen for his inheritance, and has given to Christ as his portion, and are his peculiar possession; and these he blesses with all spiritual blessings, with grace here, and glory hereafter, as is requested;
feed them also; as the shepherd does his flock, by leading them into green pastures, by giving them the bread of life, by nourishing them with the word and ordinances, by the means or his ministering servants, who are under-shepherds appointed to feed the saints with knowledge and understanding;
and lift them up for ever; above their enemies, and out of the reach of them; bear and carry them now, as the shepherd does his lambs, in his arms and bosom; and raise them out of their graves, and give them the dominion in the morning of the resurrection, and cause them to reign as kings and priests with Christ, as they ever will.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Save thy people - All thy people. The psalm appropriately closes with a prayer for all the people of God. The prayer is offered in view of the deliverance which the psalmist had himself experienced, and he prays that all the people of God might experience similar deliverance and mercy.
And bless thine inheritance - Thy heritage; Thy people. The Hebrew word properly means “taking possession of anything; occupation.” Then it comes to mean “possession; domain; estate:” Num, Psalms 18:21. Thus it is used as applied to the territory assigned to each tribe in the promised land: Joshua 13:23. Thus also it is applied to the people of Israel - the Jewish nation - as the “possession” or “property” of Yahweh; as a people whom he regarded as His own, and whom, as such, He protected: Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 9:26, Deuteronomy 9:29. In this place the people of God are thus spoken of as His special possession or property on earth; as that which He regards as of most value to Him; as that which belongs to Him, or to which He has a claim; as that which cannot without injustice to Him be alienated from Him.
Feed them also - Margin, “rule.” The Hebrew word refers to the care which a shepherd extends over his flock. See Psalms 23:1, where the same word, under another form - “shepherd” - is used. The prayer is, that God would take the same care of His people that a shepherd takes of his flock.
And lift them up for ever - The word used here may mean “sustain” them, or “support” them; but it more properly means “bear,” and would be best expressed by a reference to the fact that the shepherd carries the feeble, the young, and the sickly of his flock in his arms, or that he lifts them up when unable themselves to rise. See Isaiah 40:11, note; Isaiah 63:9, note. The word “forever” here means simply “always” - in all circumstances; at all times. In other words, the psalmist prays that God would “always” manifest Himself as the Friend and Helper of His people, as He had done to him. It may be added here, that what the psalmist thus prays for God’s “will” to be done. God “will” save His people; He will bless His heritage; He will be to them a kind and faithful shepherd; He will sustain, comfort, uphold, and cherish them always - in affliction; in temptation; in death, forever. They have only to trust in Him, and they will find Him to be more kind and faithful than the most tender shepherd ever was to his flock.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 28:9. Save thy people — Continue to preserve them from all their enemies; from idolatry, and from sin of every kind.
Bless thine inheritance — They have taken thee for their God; thou hast taken them for thy people.
Feed them — רעה raah signifies both to feed and to govern. Feed them, as a shepherd does his flock; rule them, as a father does his children.
Lift them up for ever. — Maintain thy true Church; let no enemy prevail against it. Preserve and magnify them for ever. Lift them up: as hell is the bottomless pit in which damned spirits sink down for ever; or, as Chaucer says, downe all downe; so heaven is an endless height of glory, in which there is an eternal rising or exaltation. Down, all down; up, all up; for ever and ever.
ANALYSIS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH PSALM
There are three parts in this Psalm: -
I. A prayer, Psalms 28:1-6.
II. A thanksgiving, Psalms 28:6-9.
III. A prayer for the Church, Psalms 28:9.
I. The first part is a prayer to God; in which he first requests audience, Psalms 28:2: "Hear me." And his prayer is so described, that it sets forth most of the conditions requisite in one that prays: -
1. The object - GOD: "Unto thee, O Lord, do I cry."
2. His faith: "To thee I cry, who art my rock."
3. His fervour: It was an ardent and vehement prayer: "I cry."
4. Humility; it was a supplication: "Hear the voice of my supplication."
5. His gesture: "I lift up my hands."
6. According to God's ORDER: "Towards thy holy temple."
1. The argument he uses to procure an audience; the danger he was in: "Lest, if thou be silent, I become like them that go down to the pit."
2. Then he expresses what he prays for, which is, that either
1. He might not be corrupted by the fair persuasions of hypocrites:
2. Or that he might not be partaker of their punishments: "Draw me not away with the wicked." Upon whom he sets this mark: "Who speak peace - but mischief is in their hearts."
3. Against whom he uses this imprecation, which is the second part of his prayer: "Give them according to their own deeds," c.
4. For which he gives this reason: They were enemies to God and to his religion far from repentance, and any hope of amendment: "They regard not the words of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands; therefore he shall destroy them, and not build them up."
II. Then follows an excellent form of thanksgiving, which he begins with "Blessed be the Lord;" and assigns the reasons, which express the chief parts of thanksgiving.
I. That God heard him: "He hath heard the voice of my supplication."
2. That he would be his Protector: "The Lord is my strength and my shield."
3. For his grace of confidence: "My heart trusted in him."
4. That from him he had relief: "I am helped."
5. The testification and annunciation of this gratitude: "Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him." He remembers the indenture: "I will DELIVER THEE, - thou shalt PRAISE ME." And, therefore, with heart and tongue he gives thanks.
6. And that God might have all the honour, he repeats what he said before: "The Lord is their strength," c., that is, of all them that were with him.
III. He concludes with a prayer, in which he commends the whole Church to God's care and tuition.
1. "Save thy people," in the midst of these tumults and distractions.
2. "Bless thine inheritance" that they increase in knowledge, piety, and secular prosperity.
3. "Feed them:" Give them a godly king.
4. "Lift them up for ever:" Make their name famous among the Gentiles; let them increase and multiply till thy Church embraces all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. This hath the Lord promised.
