Psalms 28

1 By David. To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

[A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent towards me: lest you be silent towards me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands towards your Most Holy Place.

Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands towards your holy temple.

3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

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 works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them.

5 Because they don’t respect the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up.

6 Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition.

7 The LORD 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.

The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him.

8 The LORD is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed.

9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever.