Psalms · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Psalm 28 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalm titles are printed as the start of verse 1.
1 [A Psalm] of David. 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.
1 By David. To you, Yahweh, 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 supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
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.
3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, 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.
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 regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
5 Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.
6 Blessed [be] the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
6 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
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.
7 Yahweh 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, and he [is] the saving strength of his anointed.
8 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
Cross references (9)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 143:7; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 88:4–6; Proverbs 1:12; Psalm 83:1
- 2 Psalm 141:2; Psalm 138:2; Psalm 140:6; 1 Timothy 2:8; Psalm 134:2
- 3 Psalm 55:21; Psalm 12:2; Jeremiah 9:8–9; Psalm 26:9; Micah 3:5
- 4 Revelation 22:12; 2 Timothy 4:14; Psalm 109:17–21; Revelation 18:6; Psalm 59:12–13
- 5 Isaiah 5:12; Romans 1:28; Job 34:26–27; John 12:37; Psalm 92:4–6
- 6 Psalm 31:21–22; Psalm 107:19–22; Psalm 118:5; Psalm 66:19–20; Psalm 69:33–34
- 7 Psalm 30:11–12; Psalm 56:3–4; Ephesians 6:10; Isaiah 61:10; Isaiah 12:2
- 8 Psalm 20:6; Psalm 140:7; Isaiah 61:1; 1 Samuel 16:13; Psalm 2:2
- 9 Isaiah 40:11; Psalm 78:71; Deuteronomy 9:29; Isaiah 63:9; Matthew 2:6
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