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Psalms 28:1

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 28:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock; be not silent to me; rather, as in the Revised Version, to thee, O Lord, will I call; my Rock, be not thou deaf unto me. "My Rock" belongs to the second clause. It is with David, in these early psalms, an epitheton usilatum (comp.

; ; , ; ; ; , etc.). The Hebrew term used is sometimes tsur, sometimes sela', which call to our minds the two great rook-fortresses of Tyre and Petra.

Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit; i.e. without hope, desperate.

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