Psalms 28

1 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.

[A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent towards me: lest you be silent towards me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

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

Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands towards your holy temple.

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

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

4 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.

Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them.

5 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.

Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up.

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

Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition.

7 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.

The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him.

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

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.

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

Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.