LORD is my strength and my shield

David is one who has prayed to God throughout most of his life; from the time when he was a boy asking for God's help to fight off wild animals, to his encounter with Goliath, his fleeing the mad king Saul, when he was the undisputed king of the land and when he is at old age. This Psalm could have been written at any point in his life.

David prays to God and expects God to answer and speak to him. He would not be satisfied with a silent God. No doubt God speaks to David throughout his whole life. He contrasts his genuine call to God with the wicked people who speak peace but with evil in their hearts.

David reminds us again that the LORD is his strength and shield. He trusts God, praises God and just rejoice at the goodness of God.




Psalm 28

A Psalm of David.

 1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock:
         Do not be silent to me,
         Lest, if You are silent to me,
         I become like those who go down to the pit.
 2 Hear the voice of my supplications
         When I cry to You,
         When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
       
 3 Do not take me away with the wicked
         And with the workers of iniquity,
         Who speak peace to their neighbors,
         But evil is in their hearts.
 4 Give them according to their deeds,
         And according to the wickedness of their endeavors;
         Give them according to the work of their hands;
         Render to them what they deserve.
 5 Because they do not regard 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 has 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 rejoices,
         And with my song I will praise Him.
       
 8 The LORD is their strength,[a]
         And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.
 9 Save Your people,
         And bless Your inheritance;
         Shepherd them also,
         And bear them up forever.