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Psalms 28:9
9Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Psalms 28:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Save your people! Bless Israel, your special possession. Lead them like a shepherd, and carry them in your arms forever.
Context of Psalms 28:9
7The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him. 8The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one. Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever.
Read all of Psalms 28Psalms 28:9 word by word
הוֹשִׁ֤יעָה׀ אֶת־עַמֶּ֗ךָ וּבָרֵ֥ךְ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָ וּֽרְעֵ֥ם וְ֝נַשְּׂאֵ֗ם עַד־הָעוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 28:9
- Psalms 14:7Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
- Psalms 25:22Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles!
- Psalms 80:14Return to us, God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,
- Jeremiah 31:7This is what the Lord says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, ‘Lord, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’
- Deuteronomy 9:29But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.”
- 2 Samuel 21:3David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make atonement so that you will bless the Lord’s inheritance?”
- 1 Kings 8:51for they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out of Egypt, out of that iron-smelting furnace.
- Jeremiah 10:16He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, including Israel, the people of his inheritance— the Lord Almighty is his name.
- Ephesians 1:18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
- Psalms 78:71from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.
- 2 Samuel 7:7Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?” ’
- Isaiah 40:11He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.
- Ezekiel 34:23I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them; he will tend them and be their shepherd.
- Micah 5:2“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
- Micah 7:14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, which lives by itself in a forest, in fertile pasturelands. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in days long ago.
- Matthew 2:6“ ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”
Commentaries on Psalms 28:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Save 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Save 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-9Verses 6-9 Has God heard our supplications? Let us then bless his name. The Lord is my strength, to support me, and carry me on through all my services and sufferings. The heart that truly believes, shall in due time greatly rejoice: we are to expect joy and peace in believing. God shall have the praise of it: thus must we express our gratitude. The saints rejoice in others' comfort as well as their own: we have the less benefit from the light of the sun…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The poem closes with intercession for the Lord’s people. bless Your inheritance: See Psalms 29:11; 133:3.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. The special prayer for the people sustains this view. feed them--as a shepherd (Psa 23:1, &c.).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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