Psalms 28

1 Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

BY DAVID. To You, O YHWH, I call, My rock, do not be silent to me! Lest You are silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

2 Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying to You, In my lifting up my hands toward your holy oracle.

3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

Do not draw me with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbors, And evil in their heart.

4 Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. Give to them according to the work of their hands. Return their deed to them.

5 Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

For they do not attend to the doing of YHWH, And to the work of His hands. He throws them down, And does not build them up.

6 Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.

Blessed [is] YHWH, For He has heard the voice of my supplications.

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

YHWH [is] my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exults, And I thank Him with my song.

8 The LORD is the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.

YHWH [is] strength to him, Indeed, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.

9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.

Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance, And feed them, and carry them for all time!