Psalms 28

1 [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into 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 the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

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

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.

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 according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

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 For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

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 Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

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

7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

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 Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.

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

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.

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