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Psa 28:1-9
This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom’s rebellion. Psa 28:2-3 resemble Psa 26:8-9.
God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably, Zep 3:17, r.v., margin; sometimes to test our faith, Mat 15:23; sometimes because He has already spoken and we have not listened, Mat 26:62. But let us never go elsewhere for help, 1Sa 28:6-7. Let us wait and pray, lifting up our hands in the dark to touch His hands.
These prayers for the punishment of the wicked should be read as predictions. Do not be afraid of evil or of evil-doers. God is “a consuming fire” and destroys all evil. He causes the enemy to be still as a stone until His redeemed have passed over. Therefore there breaks in on the psalmist the ray of hope which finds expression in Psa 28:6-7. Faith cries, I am helped! Let us rejoice even before the jailer comes to tell us that we are free, Act 16:25; and let us send out our prayers for all the Church, Psa 28:9.