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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1I cry to You, O יהוה my Rock: Do not be deaf to me! For if You are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the pit.
2Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to You, When I lift up my hands Toward Your Set-apart Speaking Place.
3Do not draw me away with the wrong And with the workers of wickedness, Who speak peace to their neighbours, But evil is in their hearts.
4Give to them according to their deeds, And according to the evil of their practices; Give to them according to the work of their hands; Bring back to them what they deserve.
5Because they do not heed the works of יהוה, Nor the works of His hands, He throws them down, And does not build them up.
6Blessed be יהוה, Because He has heard the voice of my prayers!
7יהוה is my strength, and my shield; My heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I thank Him.
8יהוה is the strength of His people, And He is the stronghold of deliverance of His anointed.
9Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; And be their Shepherd, and bear them up forever.
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