Psalms 28

1 [A Psalm] of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

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.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.

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

3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief [is] in their hearts.

Do not draw me with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbors, And evil in their heart.

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

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.

5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will destroy them, and not build them up.

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.

6 Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

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

7 The LORD [is] my strength, and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

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.

8 The LORD [is] their strength, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.

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

9 Save thy people, and bless thy inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

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