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.

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 supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.

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

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 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 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 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 heed not The Deeds of Yahweh, or the Work of his hands, he will pull them down, and not build them.

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

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

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.

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

Yahweh, is strength to his people, —And, the all-saving refuge of his Anointed One, is he!

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

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