Psalm 28 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ I cry to You, O יהוה  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 יהוה, Nor the works of His hands, He throws them down, And does not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be יהוה, Because He has heard the voice of my prayers!

⁷ יהוה  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 יהוה  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.