Psalms 28 · Verse 9

Psalms 28:9

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
Psalms 28:9, King James Version

Psalms 28:9 in other translations

BSBSave Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
WEBSave your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
ASVSave thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
YLTSave Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!
DARBYSave thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.
BBEBe a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
WebsterSave thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

What does Psalms 28:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. The special prayer for the people sustains this view. feed them--as a shepherd (Psa 23:1, &c.).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 Save thy people - Continue to preserve them from all their enemies; from idolatry, and from sin of every kind. Bless thine inheritance - They have taken thee for their God; thou hast taken them for thy people. Feed them - רעה raah signifies both to feed and to govern. Feed them, as a shepherd does his flock; rule them, as a father does his children. Lift them up for ever - Maintain thy true Church; let no enemy prevail against it. Preserve and magnify them for ever. Lift them up: as hell is the bottomless pit in which damned spirits sink down for ever; or, as Chaucer says downe all downe; so heaven is an endless height of glory, in which there is an eternal rising or exaltation. Down, all down; up, all up; for ever and ever.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 28:6-9

Has God heard our supplications? Let us then bless his name. The Lord is my strength, to support me, and carry me on through all my services and sufferings. The heart that truly believes, shall in due time greatly rejoice: we are to expect joy and peace in believing. God shall have the praise of it: thus must we express our gratitude. The saints rejoice in others' comfort as well as their own: we have the less…

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Psalms 28:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הוֹשִׁ֤יעָה\׀ho.Shi.'ahsave !H3467
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
עַמֶּ֗ךָ'a.Me.khapeople yourH5971
וּבָרֵ֥ךְu.va.Rekhand blessH1288
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
נַחֲלָתֶ֑ךָna.cha.la.Te.khainheritance yourH5159
וּֽרְעֵ֥םu.re.'Emand shepherd themH7462
וְ֝נַשְּׂאֵ֗םve.na.se.'Emand carry themH5375
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הָעוֹלָֽם\׃ha.'o.Lam<the> perpetuityH5769

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 28:9

  • Isaiah 40:11

    He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

  • Psalms 78:71

    From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

  • Deuteronomy 9:29

    Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

  • Isaiah 63:9

    In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

  • Matthew 2:6

    And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

  • 1 Kings 8:51

    For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

  • Ephesians 1:18

    The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

  • Micah 7:14

    Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

  • 1 Kings 8:53

    For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.

  • Ezra 1:4

    And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

  • Psalms 25:22

    Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

  • Jeremiah 10:16

    The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Save.
14:7; 25:22; 80:14-19; Jer 31:7
bless.
De 9:29; 2Sa 21:3; 1Ki 8:51,53; Jer 10:16; Eph 1:18
feed. or, rule.
78:71; 2Sa 7:7; Isa 40:11; Eze 34:23,24; Mic 5:2,4; 7:14
Mt 2:6; *marg:
lift.
Ezr 1:4; *marg:

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Context

  • Psalms 28:8

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

  • Psalms 28:9

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

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Psalms 28:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Salva á tu pueblo, y bendice á tu heredad; y pastoréalos y ensálzalos para siempre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Sauve ton peuple, et bénis ton héritage; et pais-les, et élève-les pour toujours.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Rette dein Volk und segne dein Erbteil; und weide sie und trage sie bis in Ewigkeit!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vox Domini præparantis cervos: et revelabit condensa, et in templo ejus omnes dicent gloriam.