Psa 28 | ABEn | STEP | A psalm to David. To you, O lord , I shall cry out. My God, do not remain silent from me! lest at any time you should remain silent, and I shall be likened to the ones going down into the pit.

Psalms 28

PSALM 28

The LORD Listens to His Servants

A psalm to David.

1 To you, O lord, I shall cry out. My God, do not remain silent from me! lest at any time you should remain silent, and I shall be likened to the ones going down into the pit. 2 Hear, O lord, the voice of my supplication! in my beseeching to you, in my lifting my hands towards [²temple ¹your holy]. 3 Do not draw me together with sinners! And [³with ⁴ones working ⁵injustice ¹do not ²destroy me together]! of the ones speaking peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts. 4 Give to them, O lord, according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their practices! [³according to ⁴the ⁵works ⁶of their hands ¹Give ²to them]! Render their recompense unto them! 5 For they perceived not unto the works of the lord, even unto the works of his hands. You shall demolish them, and in no way build them up. 6 Blessed be the lord, for he heard the voice of my supplication. 7 The lord is my helper and my defender; upon him [²hoped ¹my heart], and I was helped; and [²flourished again ¹my flesh], and by my will I will make acknowledgment to him. 8 The lord is the fortification of his people, and [²the defender ³of the ⁴deliverances ⁵of his anointed one ¹he is]. 9 Deliver your people, and bless your inheritance, and tend them, and lift them up unto the eon!