Psalms · Majority Standard Bible
Psalm 28 Majority Standard Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to 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 my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice 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 Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.
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 Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.
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, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
6 Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
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 the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
8 Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.
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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