Psalm 28 – An Answered Prayer for Help

Of David.

28 Unto you, O Lord, do I cry;

my rock, be not deaf to me:

lest, through holding your peace, I become

like those who go down to the pit.

2 Hear my loud entreaty,

as I cry for help to you,

lifting my hands, O Lord,

towards your holy chancel.

3 Take me not off with the wicked,

nor with the workers of wrong,

whose speech to their neighbours is friendly,

while evil is in their heart.

4 Give them as they have done,

as their wicked deeds deserve.

As their hands have wrought, so give to them:

requite to them their deserts.

5 They are blind to all that the Lord does,

to all that his hands have wrought;

and so he will tear them down,

to build them up no more.

6 Blest be the Lord, who has heard

my voice as I plead for mercy.

7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;

my heart trusts in him.

I was helped: so my heart is exultant,

and in my song I will praise him.

8 The Lord is the strength of his people,

the fortress who saves his anointed.

9 O save your people,

and bless your inheritance.

Be their shepherd

and carry them forever.