Psalms 28

1 A Psalm of David himself. To you, Lord, I will cry out. My God, do not be silent toward me. For if you remain silent toward me, I will become like those who descend 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, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.

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

3 Do not draw me away together with sinners; and let me not perish with those who work iniquity, who speak peacefully to their neighbor, yet evils are 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 to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.

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 Since they have not understood the works of the Lord and the works of his hands, you will destroy them, and you will 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 is the Lord, for he has heard the voice of my supplication.

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

7 The Lord is my helper and my protector. In him, my heart has hoped and I have been helped. And my flesh has flourished again. And from my will, I shall confess to 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 the strength of his people and the protector of the salvation of his Christ.

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

9 O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance, and reign over them and exalt them, even unto eternity.

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