Psalm 28

Psalm 28

Verso 1

A ti clamarei, ó Senhor, a minha rocha. Um grito é a expressão natural of sadness and is a suitable statement when all other modes of appeal we fail; but the cry must be directed only to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our supplications in the air. When we consider the Lord's readiness to listen and His ability to help, we will see a good reason to direct all our appeals to the God of our salvation, and we will use a firm and solid language like the one in the text. I will crying. The unchanging Jehovah is our rock, the unshakeable foundation of all our hopes and our refuge in times of anguish: we are fixed in our determination to flee to him as our fortress in every hour of danger. It will be in vain to call upon the rocks on the day of judgment, but our rock answer our cries. Don ’ t stay silent with me. Just formalists they can be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine supplicants they can't; they are not satisfied with the results of the prayer in calming the mind and subjugate the will - they must go beyond and obtain real answers from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those answers they wish to receive at once, if possible; they even fear a little of the silence of God. The voice of God is often so terrible that it shakes the desert; but his silence is equally full of admiration for an eager supplicant. When God seems to close His ear, therefore we should not close our mouths, but rather to cry with more fervor; because when our note becomes strident with anxiety and sadness, he will not deny us for much longer a audience. What a terrible case we must be if the Lord becomes always in silence for our prayers! This thought was suggested to David, and he turned this into an appeal, teaching us to discuss and reason with God in our prayers. So that, if you are silent with me, I... become like those who go down to the pit. Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more lamentable condition than the dead in the grave, and soon we would fall to the same level as the lost in hell.

We need to have answers for the prayer: ours is an urgent case of extreme necessity. need; Surely the Lord will speak peace to our troubled minds, for he will never be able to find it in his heart to allow his own chosen perish. and must soon sink to the same level as the lost no hell. We need to have answers for the prayer: ours is an urgent case of extreme necessity; Surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for he will never be able to find it in his heart to allow your own elected to perish. and it must soon sink to the same level that the lost are in hell. We need to have answers to prayer: the Ours is an urgent case of extreme necessity; Surely the Lord will speak in peace for our restless minds, for he will never be able to find it in your heart to allow your own chosen ones to perish.

Verse 2

This is very much for the same purpose as the first verse, only that if refers to the future, as well as articulated presents. Listen to me! Listen to me! Listen to the voice of my supplications! This is the weight of both verses. We cannot... leave with a refusal when we are in the spirit of prayer; we we work, use importunity and agonize in pleas until a let us be granted an audience. The word 'supplications', in the plural, shows the the number, the continuity, and the variety of the prayers of a good man, while the expression "listen to the voice" seems to suggest that there is a meaning internal, or voice of the heart, about which spiritually men are much more worried about their external and audible statements. A prayer a silent one may have a voice louder than the screams of those priests they sought to awaken Baal with their shouts. When I raise my hands to your sacred oracle: what sacred place was the type of our Lord Jesus; and if we obtain acceptance, we must give ourselves more and more. to the merciful blood, seat of mercy of your expiation. Hands upright positions have always been a form of devoted posture, and are intended to signify a reaching upwards towards God, a readiness, a desire to receive the wished blessing. We extend our empty hands, for we are beggars; we elevate them, for we seek heavenly supplies; we we raise ourselves towards the mercy seat of Jesus, for there our expectation remains. Whenever we use devout gestures, we can have hearts contrite, and thus hurry well with God.

Verse 3

Do not take me with the wicked. They should be dragged to hell. like delinquents of old taken to Tyburn, like trunks pulled into the fire, like wood for the oven. David fears that he is not tied in your bundles, drawn to your destruction; and fear is appropriate for every godly man. The best of the wicked are a company dangerous in time and would make terrible companions for eternity; we must avoid them in their pleasures, if we did not confuse ourselves with them in their miseries. And with the workers of iniquity. These are openly sinners, and their judgment will be certain; Lord, do not make us drink from Their cup. The activity is found with the wicked, even if it is lacking for the Just. Oh! to be 'workers' for the Lord. Who speak peace to their neighbors, but the evil is in their hearts. They have learned the ways of place where they are going: the disgrace of liars is their portion for always, and lying is their conversation on the road. Soft words, oily with pretend love, it is the deceptive threads of the infernal net in which Satan captures the precious life; many of its children are trained in their craft abominable and they fish with their father's nets, almost as cunningly how much he himself could do it. It is a sure sign of lowliness when the language and the heart do not touch on the same note. Fearful men are more feared more than wild beasts: it is better for us to be locked in a hole with snakes than to be forced to live with liars. He who shout 'peace' very loudly, meaning to sell it if he can get his price. 'The a good wine does not need a bush: if it were so peaceful, it would not precisaria dizê-lo; ele quer dizer travessura, tenha certeza disso.

When we see the wicked simply as such, and not as our own similar, our indignation against sin leads us to coincide completely with the acts of divine justice that punish evil and to wish that the justice use your power to repress. your terrors the cruel and unjust; but still thus the desires of the present verse, as our version presents it, are not promptly in line with the spirit of the Christian dispensation, which seeks better reform than punishment for sinners. If we face the words before us as prophetic, or as in the future, declaring a fact, we are probably closer to the true meaning than the given in our version. Reader of the wicked, what will be your fate when the The Lord deals with you according to your desert, and weighs your... anger, not only in proportion to what you really did, but according to the what you would have done if you could. Our efforts are taken as facts; God takes the will by action and punishes or rewards accordingly. Not in this. life, but certainly in the next, God will repay your enemies in their faces and will give them the salary of their sins. Not according to their words flatterers, but after measuring their malicious acts, the Lord will do revenge for those who do not know him.

Verse 5

Because they do not consider the works of the Lord, nor the the functioning of your hands. God works in creation - nature is full of proofs of his wisdom and goodness, but the blind atheists refuse to see he works in providence, governing and dominating, and his hand is very it manifests in human history, but the unfaithful will not discern it: he works in the grace - remarkable conversions are still found in every hand, but the The wicked refuse to see the works of the Lord. Where the angels are they ask, the carnal men despise. God condescends to teach, and the man refuses to learn. He will destroy them: he will make them "behold that wonderful and perish." If they do not see the hand of judgment upon the others, they must feel about themselves. Both the soul and the body will be subjugated with total destruction forever. And do not build them.

God's healing is both positive and negative; His sword has two edges and cuts both ways. right and to the left. His inheritance of evil will prevent the wicked from receiving any good; the efa will be full of wrath to contain a grain of hope.

They have become like old rotting wooden houses in decay, useless. for the owner and shelter all kinds of evil, and therefore the Great The builder will completely demolish it. Incorrigible offenders may expect a quick destruction: those who do not fix will be thrown away like useless. Let us be very attentive to all the lessons of the word and work of God, in order not to be disobedient to the divine will, we are obligated to suffer the divine wrath.

Verse 6: Blessed be the Lord. The saints are full of blessings; they are a blessed people and a blessed people; but they give their best blessings, the fat of your sacrifices, to your glorious Lord.

Our Psalm was prayer until this point, and now it transforms into praise. The for those who pray well will soon praise well: prayer and praise are the two lips of soul; two bells to play sweet and acceptable music to the ears of God; two angels to ascend Jacob's ladder: two altars smoking with incense; two the lilies of Solomon releasing sweet and fragrant myrrh; They are two young does what are twins, feeding on the mountain of myrrh and the hill of incense. Because he heard the voice of my supplications. True praise is established for sufficient and compelling reasons; it is not an emotion irrational, but it arises, like a pure source, from the depths of experience.

Answered prayers must be recognized. We usually do not fail in this. should? Wouldn't it greatly encourage others and strengthen ourselves if we would faithfully record divine goodness, and made a point of exalting it with the our language? God's mercy is not something so unpredictable that we may dare to welcome her without so much gratitude. We must avoid ingratitude and living daily in the celestial atmosphere of grateful love.

Verse 7

Here is David's declaration and confession of faith, along with with a testimony of his experience. The Lord is my strength. The Lord employ your power in our favor and, in addition, infuse strength into our weakness. The psalmist, through an act of appropriation of faith, assumes that the the omnipotence of Jehovah is yours. The dependence on the invisible God gives great independence of spirit, inspiring us with more confidence than human. And my shield. Thus David found sword and shield in his God.

The Lord preserves His people from unnumbered evils; and the Christian warrior, thankful for behind your God, it is much safer than the hero when covered with his brass or triple steel shield. My heart trusts him and I I am helped. The work of the heart is the right work; The trust of the heart. never is disappointed. Faith must come before help but the help will never be very late. Every day the believer can say: "I am helped", for the divine assistance is granted at every moment, or should we return to the lost; when more manifest help is needed, we only have to put faith into practice, and this will be given to us. Therefore my heart is I rejoice greatly; and with my song, I will praise Him. The heart is mentioned. twice to show the truth of your faith and your joy. Observe the adverb "greatly", we do not need to be afraid to rejoice too much with the remembrance of the grace received. We serve a great God, let us rejoice greatly in it. A song is the most suitable method for the soul to express itself. your happiness, it would be good if we were more similar to the singing lark and less with the croaking crow. When the heart is shining, the lips they should not remain silent. When God blesses us, we should bless Him with all our heart.

Verse 8

The Lord is their strength. The heavenly experience of a believer is a standard of life for all. For the entire militant church, without exception, Jehovah is the even though it was for your servant David, "the least of them will be like David." They they need the same help and they will receive it, for they are loved. with the same amor, escrito no mesmo livro da vida, e um com a mesma cabeça ungida. E he is the saving strength of his anointed. Here is King David as the type of our Lord Jesus, our head of the covenant, our anointed Prince, through the for all blessings come to us. He has achieved full salvation for us, and we wish to spare strength from him, and since we share the anointing that is so widely poured out over him, we hope to participate in his salvation.

Glory to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who magnified power of His grace in His Only Begotten Son, whom He anointed to be Prince and Savior of his people.

Verse 9

This is a prayer for the militant church, written in short words, more filled with heavy meaning.

We must pray for the whole church, and not for ourselves alone. Save your people. Deliver them from their enemies, preserve them from their sins, help them under your problems, rescue them from their temptations and keep them away from all the males. There is a hidden request in the expression "your people", as it can be surely concluded that God's interest in the church, as His own portion, it will lead you to guard it from destruction. Bless your inheritance. Grant positive blessings, peace, abundance, prosperity, happiness; make it so may all your precious and valuable inheritance be comforted by your Spirit.

Revive, update, expand, and sanctify your church. Feed them too. Be shepherd of your flock, may your bodily and spiritual needs be abundantly supplied. By your word and by the ordinances, guide, govern, sustain, and satisfy those who are the sheep of your hand. And raise them up forever. Carry them in your arms over the earth and then take them to your bosom in heaven. Elevate your minds and thoughts, spiritualize your affection, make them celestial, Christian and full of God. Oh Lord, answer this our petition, for the love of Jesus.