Psalms 28
1 I cry to You, O YHWH my Rock: Do not be deaf to me! For if You are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to You, When I lift up my hands Toward Your Set-apart Speaking Place.
3 Do not draw me away with the wrong And with the workers of wickedness, Who speak peace to their neighbours, But evil is in their hearts.
4 Give to them according to their deeds, And according to the evil of their practices; Give to them according to the work of their hands; Bring back to them what they deserve.
5 Because they do not heed the works of YHWH, Nor the works of His hands, He throws them down, And does not build them up.
6 Blessed be YHWH, Because He has heard the voice of my prayers!
7 YHWH is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him.
8 YHWH is the strength of His people, And He is the stronghold of deliverance of His anointed.
9 Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; And be their Shepherd, and bear them up forever.