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.

Yahweh, I call out to you; [you are like an overhanging] rock [under which I can hide]. Do not refuse to answer me, because if you are silent, I will soon be with those who are in their graves.

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

Listen to me when I call out for you [to help me], when I pray, lifting up my hands as I face your sacred 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 drag me away with wicked people, with those who do wicked deeds, with those who pretend [to act] peacefully toward others while in their inner beings, they hate them.

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.

Punish those people in the way that they deserve for what they have done; punish them for their evil deeds [DOU].

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.

Yahweh, they do not pay attention to the [wonderful] things that you have done and that you have created; so get rid of them permanently and do not let them appear again!

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

Praise Yahweh because he has heard me when I called out for him to help me!

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 makes me strong and [protects] me [like a shield] [MET]; I trusted in him, and he helped me. I was glad, and from my inner being I praised him as I sang to him.

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

Yahweh causes us to be strong and protects us; and he saves me, the one he appointed [MTY] to be king.

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

Yahweh, save/rescue your people; bless those who belong to you. [Take care of them like] a shepherd [takes care of his sheep] [MET]; take care of them forever.