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Psalm 28:9
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
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.
Notice
The prayer for “your people” widens the concern from one person's rescue to a whole people who need God to shepherd and carry them.
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James 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.Psalm 28 asks God to bear his people up; James speaks of the Lord exalting those who humble themselves.
Numbers 6:24‘The LORD bless you, and keep you.Both passages ask for God's blessing, joining that request with care for those who receive it.
Isaiah 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.Psalm 28 asks God to shepherd and bear his people up; Isaiah describes a shepherd who gathers and carries lambs.
Exodus 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and …Both prayers speak of God's people as his inheritance, with Exodus asking him to take them as his own.
Psalm 78:71from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.Both join shepherd language with the description of God's people as his inheritance.
Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried …Psalm 28 asks God to save and carry his people; Isaiah recounts how he saved and carried them in the past.
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”Both address God concerning his people and his inheritance; Deuteronomy recalls the great power by which he brought them out.
Jeremiah 31:7For the LORD says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘LORD, save your people, the remnant of …Both contain the plea to save God's people, with Jeremiah naming them as the remnant of Israel.
Matthew 2:6‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”Psalm 28 asks God to shepherd his people; Matthew speaks of a governor who will shepherd God's people, Israel.
1 Kings 8:51(for they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron furnace);Both describe the people as God's inheritance; Kings identifies them as those he brought out of Egypt.
Ephesians 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the …Both speak of God's inheritance in connection with his people; Ephesians adds a prayer that its glory be known.
Psalm 30:1A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David. I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.Psalm 28 asks God to bear his people up; Psalm 30 thanks him for having raised the speaker up.
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The people named here belong to God even as they ask for rescue. Their need for help has not erased their place as his inheritance.
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