A Psalm of David.
Unto thee will I cry, O Jehovah my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Give them according to their deeds; and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
Blessed be Jehovah, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Jehovah 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.
Jehovah is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his Messiah.
Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever.
28:1, 2 Cry-for manifest recognition, and 3-5 for exemption from the judgment on the "wicked; 6-9 joy in Jehovah as hearing and saving his people.