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.

David’s. Unto thee, O Yahweh, do I cry, O my Rock! do not turn in silence from me, —lest, if thou turn from me in silence, I be like them who 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 supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.

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 drag me away—with the lawless, or with the workers of iniquity, —who speak peaceably with their neighbours, but, wrong, is 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 them, according to their deed, and, according to the wrong of their practices, —According to the work of their own hands, give thou unto them, Bring back their own dealing to themselves.

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 heed not The Deeds of Yahweh, or the Work of his hands, he will pull them down, and not build them.

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

Blessed be Yahweh, Because he hath 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.

Yahweh, is my strength and my shield, In him, hath trusted my heart, and I have found help, —Therefore hath my heart danced for joy, and, with my song, do I praise him.

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

Yahweh, is strength to his people, —And, the all-saving refuge of his Anointed One, is he!

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

Oh save thy people, and bless thine inheritance, Tend them also, and carry them, Unto times age-abiding.