Psalms 28

1 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

[A Psalm] of David. Unto thee, O LORD, will I call; my rock, be not thou deaf unto me: lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

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

3 Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; which speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

4 Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: give them after the operation of their hands; render to them their desert.

5 For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall break them down and not build them up.

6 Blessed [is] Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

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

7 Jehovah [is] my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

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

8 Jehovah [is] strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.

The LORD is their strength, and he is a strong hold of salvation to his anointed.

9 Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and bear them up for ever.