Psalms 28

1 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.

[A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 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.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

3 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.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.

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

Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

5 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!

For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

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

Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

7 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.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

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

Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.

9 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.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.