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.

To you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down 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 the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.

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

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is 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 deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

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 regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

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

Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

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 strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

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

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength 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: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.