Psalms 28

1 [By David.] To you, Jehovah, I call. My rock, do not be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into 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 petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

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 away with the wicked, with evildoers who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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 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.

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 Because they do not regard the works of Jehovah, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and 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 be Jehovah, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

Blessed be Yahweh, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplication.

7 Jehovah 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 thank him.

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 Jehovah is the strength of his people. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

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. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

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