Chapter 28
1 To you , LORD , I call . My rock , don’t be deaf to me , lest , if you are silent to me , I would become like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you , when I lift up my hands towards your Most Holy Place .
3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked , with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours , but mischief is in their hearts .
4 Give them according to their work , and according to the wickedness of their doings . Give them according to the operation of their hands . Bring back on them what they deserve.
5 Because they don’t respect the works of the LORD , nor the operation of his hands , he will break them down and not build them up .
6 Blessed be the LORD , because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield . My heart has trusted in him , and I am helped . Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him .
8 The LORD is their strength . He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed .
9 Save your people , and bless your inheritance . Be their shepherd also , and bear them up forever .