Psalms

28 To you, Jehovah, I call;

my Rock, do not be deaf to me,

For fear you should keep quiet in my case

and I become such as are those who are down in the Pit;

2 Hear my suppliant voice when I clamor to you,

when I raise my hands toward your holy shrine.

3 Do not rake me up with malefactors,

with those who practice villainy,

That talk peace with their neighbors

but have harm in their hearts.

4 Give them what will match their doings,

the viciousness of their practices;

Such as the work their hands have done give to them,

give them back their own dealings!

5 Because they have no sense of Jehovah’s doings

and of the work his hands have done,

he shall tear them down and not rebuild them.

6 Blessed be Jehovah

because he has heard my suppliant voice.

7 Jehovah is my strength and my song;

my heart relies on him,

And I am helped, and my heart exults,

and with my song I will thank him.

8 Jehovah is might to his people,

and his anointed one’s citadel of salvation is he.

9 Save your people and bless your estate,

and shepherd them and carry them forever.