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Psalm 28:8
The LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
6Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
7The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
8The LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
9Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
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The shift from “my strength” to “their strength” broadens the song’s gratitude, drawing attention to a whole people whose help comes from YHWH.
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Psalm 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.The same confession of the LORD as strength moves from one thankful speaker to the people and his anointed.
Ephesians 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,Both passages locate strength in God; Ephesians asks for that strength through his Spirit in the inner person.
Psalm 20:6Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.Both psalms name the LORD as the one who saves his anointed and associate that salvation with his strength.
Psalm 140:7LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.Strength and salvation belong to the LORD in both passages, with protection pictured as a stronghold and a covered head.
Isaiah 61:1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim …Both speak of someone anointed by the LORD; Isaiah describes his task, while the psalm names the LORD as his refuge.
Isaiah 33:6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is your treasure.Salvation is the shared theme, pictured as a stronghold in the psalm and named alongside stability in Isaiah.
1 Samuel 16:13Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel …Both passages link the anointed with the LORD, though Samuel describes David’s anointing and the psalm speaks of saving protection.
1 Samuel 2:10Those who strive with the LORD shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. He will give …Both passages connect the LORD’s strength with his anointed, whom Hannah’s song identifies as his king.
1 Chronicles 29:12Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all! In your hand is power and might! It is in your hand to make great, and to give strength to all!Both passages identify God as the source of strength, and Chronicles places that gift within his rule over all.
Psalm 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed, saying,Both name the LORD and his anointed; Psalm 2 describes opposition to them, while Psalm 28 declares the LORD’s protection.
Habakkuk 3:13You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to …Both passages speak of salvation for God’s anointed, with the people also sharing in God’s help.
Genesis 49:24But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),Both passages trace human strength to God; Genesis pictures arms made strong by the Mighty One of Jacob.
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The people and their anointed king both depend on YHWH. Your weakness does not diminish his strength; he is the stronghold on whom they depend.
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