Psalms 28

1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, do 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.

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 Thy holy Sanctuary.

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 with 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 according to their deeds, and according to the evil of their endeavours; 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 Because they give no heed to the works of the LORD, nor to the operation of His hands; He will break them down 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 the LORD, because He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

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

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield, in Him hath my heart trusted, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, 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 The LORD is a strength unto them; and He is a stronghold of salvation to His anointed.

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 tend them, and carry them for ever.

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