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.

“Of David.” Unto thee, O Lord, will I call; O my rock, turn not unheeding from me: lest thou turn away silent from me, and I become like those 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 unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the most holy place of thy sanctuary.

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

Snatch me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of injustice, who speak peace with their neighbors, with mischief in their heart.

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 unto them according to their doing, and according to the evil of their deeds; according to the work of their hands do thou give unto them: bestow their [just] recompense on 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 no regard for the doings of the Lord, nor the works of his hands: may he pull them down, and not build them up.

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

Blessed be the Lord, because he hath 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; in him hath my heart trusted, and I am helped, and my heart exulteth; and with my song will I thank him.

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

The Lord is strength unto them, and he is the fortress of victory of his anointed.

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

Help thy people, and bless thy heritage: and feed them, and exalt them unto all eternity.