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 himself. To you, Lord, I will cry out. My God, do not be silent toward me. For if you remain silent toward me, I will become like those who descend into the pit.

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

Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward 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.

Do not draw me away together with sinners; and let me not perish with those who work iniquity, who speak peacefully to their neighbor, yet 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 to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.

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.

Since they have not understood the works of the Lord and the works of his hands, you will destroy them, and you will not build them up.

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

Blessed is the Lord, for he has heard the voice of my supplication.

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 protector. In him, my heart has hoped and I have been helped. And my flesh has flourished again. And from my will, I shall confess 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 protector of the salvation of his Christ.

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

O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance, and reign over them and exalt them, even unto eternity.