John Gill Commentary Psalms 28:2

"Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle." — Psalms 28:2 (ASV)

Hear the voice of my supplications
Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit;

when I cry unto thee ;
as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard;

when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle :
the holy of holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple, which was sometimes so called, (1 Kings 6:23) ; compared with (2 Chronicles 3:10) ; where were the ark, the mercy seat, and cherubim, between which the Lord dwelt, and gave responses to his people; or heaven itself, which the holy of holies was a figure of; where is the throne of God, and from where he hears the prayers of his people directed to him; or else Christ himself, who is the most Holy, and the "Debir", or Oracle, who speaks to the Lord for his people; and by whom the Lord speaks to them again, and communes with them. The oracle had its name, "debir", from speaking. Lifting up of the hands is a prayer gesture, and here designs the performance of that duty to God in heaven, through Christ; see (Lamentations 3:41) (1 Timothy 2:8) ; it was frequently used, even by the Heathens, as a prayer gesture ^F18 ; see (Psalms 141:2) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F18: "Duplices manus ad sidera tendit--et paulo post--et ambas ad coelum tendit palmas", Virgil. Aeneid. 10. vid. Aeneid. 2. "Ad coelum manibus sublatis", Horat. Satyr. l. 2. satyr. 5. v. 97. "Coelo supines si tuleris manus", ib. Carmin. l. 3. Ode 23. v. 1. "Et pandere palmas ante Deum delubra", Lucretius l. 5. prope finem (dh ceira anascwn) , Homer. Iliad. 5. v. 174.