Psalms 28
1 [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Yahweh, I call out to you; [you are like an overhanging] rock [under which I can hide]. Do not refuse to answer me, because if you are silent, I will soon be with those who are in their graves.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Listen to me when I call out for you [to help me], when I pray, lifting up my hands as I face your sacred temple.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Do not drag me away with wicked people, with those who do wicked deeds, with those who pretend [to act] peacefully toward others while in their inner beings, they hate them.
4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.
Punish those people in the way that they deserve for what they have done; punish them for their evil deeds [DOU].
5 Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.
Yahweh, they do not pay attention to the [wonderful] things that you have done and that you have created; so get rid of them permanently and do not let them appear again!
6 Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Praise Yahweh because he has heard me when I called out for him to help me!
7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will I praise him.
Yahweh makes me strong and [protects] me [like a shield] [MET]; I trusted in him, and he helped me. I was glad, and from my inner being I praised him as I sang to him.
8 Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
Yahweh causes us to be strong and protects us; and he saves me, the one he appointed [MTY] to be king.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.
Yahweh, save/rescue your people; bless those who belong to you. [Take care of them like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; take care of them forever.
