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Psalms 28
David cries to Jehovah as his rock and oracle — the physical posture of lifted hands toward the holy place anchoring the prayer — and pleads not to be swept away with those whose speech is peace but whose inward counsel is harm. He asks that the workers of iniquity receive exactly what their hands have built, since they have refused to see Jehovah's own workings in the earth. The psalm closes with Jehovah named as the saving strength of his anointed — the mashiach — and ends with a covenant petition: feed and lift thy people, thy inheritance, forever.
1
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
4
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
5
Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6
Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
7
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
8
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
9
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
