Chapter 28 - Unto thee will I cry

1 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.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

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.

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.

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.

6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

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.

8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: 

feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Chapter 29