Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 28:8

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

(i. e.) The strength of his people, mentioned in the next Verse: the Relative being put before the Antecedent, which is left to be gathered out of the following matter, as it is, Numb. 24. 17. Psal. 87. 1. Or, his strength: for the Hebrew Affix Mo, which commonly is plural, is sometimes taken singularly: of which see my Latin Synopsis here, and on Isa. 53. 8. And his, (i. e.) Of his anointed, as the next Clause explains it. Or, the Words may be thus rendred, strength is, Or, belongs to the Lord, Heb. The Lord, strength is his, Or, to him. It is an Hebrew Pleonasme.

Heb. The strength of the Preservations, or Deliverances, or Victories, or Salvations, (i. e.) He by whose strength alone he hath got these Victories, &c.

m (i. e.) Of me whom he hath anointed to be King, whom therefore he will defend, he speaks of himself in the third Person, which is usual in the Hebrew Tongue.

Marginal references: Or, his strength.; Heb. strength of Salvati[illegible: 1+ letters].