< Psalms 28 >

1 Of David. My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
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 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying to You, In my lifting up my hands toward your holy oracle.
3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil 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 Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.
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 Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.
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 May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.
Blessed [is] YHWH, For He has heard the voice of my supplications.
7 The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in 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 their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
YHWH [is] strength to him, Indeed, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.
9 Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance, And feed them, and carry them for all time!

< Psalms 28 >