Zabur 28

By Dawud.

¹To you, Allah, I call.

My rock, do not be deaf to me;

Lest, if you are silent to me,

I would become like those who go down into the pit.

²Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,

When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

³Do not draw me away with the wicked,

With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbours,

But mischief is in their hearts.

⁴Give 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.

⁵Because they do not regard the works of Allah,

Nor the operation of his hands,

He will break them down and not build them up.

⁶Praise be to Allah,

Because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

⁷Allah 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.

⁸Allah is their strength.

He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

⁹Save your people,

And bless your inheritance.

Be their shepherd also,

And bear them up forever.