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.

A psalm of David. To you, Yahweh, I cry out; my rock, do not ignore me. If you do not respond to me, I will join those who go down to the grave.

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

Hear the sound of my pleading when I call for help from 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.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, those who do iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors but have evil 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 what their deeds deserve and repay them what their wickedness demands, repay them for the work of their hands and render to them their due.

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 do not understand the deeds of Yahweh or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.

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

Blessed be Yahweh because he has heard the sound of my pleading!

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; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and I will praise him with singing.

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

Yahweh is the strength of his people, and he is the saving refuge of his anointed one.

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 and carry them forever.