Psalms 28

1 A psalm of David. Lord, my rock, I'm calling out to you. Please listen to me! For if you don't respond, I'll be like those who go down into the grave.

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 Listen as I appeal for mercy, as I call for help, as I hold up my hands in prayer towards your holy Temple.

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

3 Don't drag me off with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak nicely to their neighbors while in their minds they're plotting evil.

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 what they deserve for their evil actions. Pay them back for what they've done. Give them the reward they've earned!

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 don't pay any attention to what the Lord does, or to what he created. So he will destroy them—they will never be restored.

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 Praise the Lord! For he has heard my appeal for mercy!

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

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield. I trust in him and he helps me. I'm so happy, and I sing my thanks to 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 The Lord gives strength to his people; he is a safe refuge for the one he has anointed.

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

9 Save your people! Bless your “special possession”! Be their shepherd and carry them in your arms forever!

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