Psalm
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.+