Psalms 28
28
My Strength and Shield
David’s poetic praise to God
My Defender
1I’m pleading with you, Yahweh, help me! # 28:1 This psalm was likely written when David was exiled because of the rebellion of his son Absalom. He was not longing and looking for his throne but for God’s throne (see v. 2).
Don’t close your ears to my cry, for you’re my defender. # 28:1 Or “my rocky summit.”
If you continue to remain aloof and refuse to answer me,
I might as well give up and die.
2Hear my cry for help as I turn toward your mercy seat,
as I lift my hands toward your sacred sanctuary.
3Don’t allow me to be punished along with the wicked—
these hypocrites who speak sweetly to their neighbors’ faces
while holding evil against them in their hearts.
My Vindication
4Go ahead and punish them as they deserve.
Let them be paid back for all their evil plans
in proportion to their wickedness.
5Since they don’t care anything about you,
or understand the great things you’ve done,
take them down like an old building being demolished,
never again to be rebuilt.
6But Yahweh, may your name be blessed and built up!
For you have answered my passionate cry for mercy.
My Strength
7Yahweh is my strength and my wraparound shield.
When I fully trust in you, help is on the way.
I jump for joy and burst forth with ecstatic, passionate praise!
I will sing songs of what you mean to me!
8You will be the inner strength of all your people,
Yahweh, the mighty protector of all,
and the saving strength for all your anointed ones.
9Save your people whom you love, and bless your chosen ones.
Be our shepherd leading us forward,
forever carrying us in your arms!
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PSALM 28
A Psalm of David.
1Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness. 3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart. 4Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert. 5For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.
6Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him. 8Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one. 9Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.