Psalm 28:1-9
Of David.
28 To you, O Jehovah, I keep calling.+O my Rock, do not be deaf to me,*+That you may not keep still toward me+And I do not have to become like those going down to the pit.+
2 Hear the voice of my entreaties when I cry to you for help,When I raise my hands+ to the innermost room of your holy place.+
3 Do not draw me along with wicked people and with practicers of what is hurtful,+Those who are speaking peace with their companions+ but in whose hearts is what is bad.+
4 Give to them according to their acting+And according to the badness of their practices.+According to the work of their hands do you give to them.+Pay back to them their own doing.+
5 For they have no regard for the activities of Jehovah,+Nor for the work of his hands.+He will tear them down and not build them up.
6 Blessed be Jehovah,* for he has heard the voice of my entreaties.+
7 Jehovah* is my strength+ and my shield.+In him my heart has trusted,+And I have been helped, so that my heart exults,+And with my song I shall laud him.+
8 Jehovah* is a strength to his people,*+And he is a stronghold of the grand salvation of his anointed one.*+
9 Do save your people, and bless your inheritance;+And shepherd them and carry them to time indefinite.+
Footnotes
^ Or, “do not turn from me in silence.”
^ See App 1C §10.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ “To his people,” LXXSyVg and eight Heb. mss; M, “to them.”
^ “His anointed one.” Heb., meshi·chohʹ; Gr., khri·stouʹ; Syr., meshi·cheh; Lat., chriʹsti.
