28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee,
when I lift up my hands toward thy b holy oracle.
(b) He counts himself as a dead man, till God shows his
favour toward him, and grants him his petition.
28:3c 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.
(c) Destroy not the good with the bad.
28:4d 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.
(d) He thus prayed in respect to God's glory and not for
his own cause, being assured that God would punish the
persecutors of his Church.
28:5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the
operation of his hands, he shall e destroy them, and not
build them up.
(e) Let them be utterly destroyed as in (Mal 1:4).
28:6f Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice
of my supplications.
(f) Because he felt the assurance of God's help in his
heart, his mouth was opened to sing his praises.
28:8 The LORD [is] g their strength, and he [is] the saving
strength of his anointed.
(g) Meaning his soldiers who were means by which God
declared his power.
