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, Adonai, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit (of Abbadon, the unrighteous side of Sheol).

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

Sh'ma ·Hear obey· the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of vain striving of iniquity who speak peace with 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 work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

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 don’t respect the works of Adonai, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

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

Blessed be Adonai, because he has sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the voice of my petitions.

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.

Adonai is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to him.

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

Adonai is their strength. He is a stronghold of yishu'ah ·salvation· to 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. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.