2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

28:2 Towards - Towards the holy of holies, because there the ark was; from whence God gave oracular answers to his people.

3 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.

28:3 Draw not - Do not drag me; as thou dost these, to execution and destruction.

4 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.

5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

28:5 Regard not - The providential works of God towards his people.

6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath 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 rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

28:7 I am helped - He speaks of it as past, because God assured him by his spirit, that he had heard and accepted his prayers.

8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.