--- title: "Psalms 28 - Study King James Bible with barnes notes on the whole bible" description: "Read Psalms 28 with barnes notes on the whole bible commentary. 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. 2 Hear the voice" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/barnes-notes-on-the-whole-bible/psalms/28" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/28)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/28)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/28) Audio 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.* 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.* 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. 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. 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. 6 Blessed *be* the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 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. 8 The LORD *is* their strength, and he *is* the saving strength of his anointed.** 9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.* [Psalms 27](/study/psalms/27) [Psalms 29](/study/psalms/29) ## Commentary To verse 1 **Unto thee will I cry -**That is, under the consciousness of the danger to which I am exposed - the danger of being drawn away into the society of the wicked. In such circumstances his reliance was not on his own strength; or on his own resolutions; on his own heart; or on his fellowmen. He felt that he was safe only in God, and he appeals to Him, therefore, in this earnest manner, to save him. **O Lord my rock -**See the notes at [Psalms 18:2](/kjv/psalms/18/2). **Be not silent to me -**Margin, “from me.” So the Hebrew. The idea is that of one who will not speak to us, or who will not attend to us. We pray, and we look for an “answer” to our prayers, or, as it were, we expect God to “speak” to us; to utter words of kindness; to assure us of His favor; to declare our sins forgiven. **Lest, if thou be silent to me -**If thou dost not answer my supplications. **I become like unto them that go down into the pit -**Like those who die; or, lest I be crushed by anxiety and distress, and die. The word “pit” here refers to the grave. So it is used in [Psalms 30:3](/kjv/psalms/30/3); [Psalms 88:4](/kjv/psalms/88/4); [Isaiah 38:18](/kjv/isaiah/38/18); [Isaiah 14:15](/kjv/isaiah/14/15), [Isaiah 14:19](/kjv/isaiah/14/19). The meaning is, that if he did not obtain help from God he despaired of life. His troubles would overwhelm and crush him. 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