Psalm 28

By David.

28 To you, Yahweh, I call.

    My rock, don’t be deaf to me,

    lest, if you are silent to me,

    I would become like those who go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,

    when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked,

    with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,

    but mischief is in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.

    Give them according to the operation of their hands.

    Bring back on them what they deserve.

5 Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,

    nor the operation of his hands,

    he will break them down and not build them up.

6 Blessed be Yahweh,

    because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield.

    My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.

Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.

    With my song I will thank him.

8 Yahweh is their strength.

    He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

9 Save your people,

    and bless your inheritance.

Be their shepherd also,

    and bear them up forever.