--- title: "Psalms 28 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Psalms 28 with ellicotts commentary for english readers 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/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/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 (1) **My rock.**—Heb., *tsûr,*from a root implying “bind together” ([Deuteronomy 14:25](/kjv/deuteronomy/14/25)), not necessarily therefore with sense of height, but with that of strength and solidity. Thus Tyre (or Tsûr) is built on a broad shelf of rock. We see from [Deuteronomy 32:30-31](/kjv/deuteronomy/32/30-31); [1 Samuel 2:2](/kjv/1-samuel/2/2), that “rock” was a common metaphor for a tutelary deity, and it is adopted frequently for Jehovah in the Psalms and poetical books. Sometimes in the Authorised Version it is rendered “strong” ([Psalms 60:9](/kjv/psalms/60/9); [Psalms 71:3](/kjv/psalms/71/3); see margin). The LXX. (followed by Vulg.) here, as generally, apparently through timidity, suppresses the metaphor, and renders “my God.” In the song of Moses in Deuteronomy, the metaphor occurs nine times, and Stanley thinks it was derived from the granite peaks of Sinai (*Jewish Church,*p. 195). **Be not silent to me.**—Vulg. and margin, rightly, “from me.” The word rendered “silent” appears, like κωφὸς**in Greek, to have the double meaning of deaf and dumb, and is apparently from an analogous derivation. (See Gesenius, *Lex., sub voce.*)**Hence we might render, “turn not a deaf ear to me,” or “turn not from me in silence.” **Them that go down into the pit**—*i.e., the dead,*or *those just about to die*([Psalms 30:3](/kjv/psalms/30/3)). In [Psalms 88:4](/kjv/psalms/88/4), the expression is parallel to “My life draweth nigh unto the grave;” pit (*bôr*)**is either the sepulchre (as [Isaiah 14:19](/kjv/isaiah/14/19)), or the world of the dead ([Psalms 88:4](/kjv/psalms/88/4)). The two significations pass one into the other. 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