28
By David [Beloved].
Context: David [Beloved] flees from Absolom [My father peace]. (1 Chr 15-17)
1 To you, Adonai, 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 (of Abbadon, the unrighteous side of Sheol).
2 Sh'ma ·Hear obey· the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
3 Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
with the workers of vain striving of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,
but mischief is in their hearts.
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 Because they don’t respect the works of Adonai,
nor the operation of his hands,
he will break them down and not build them up.
6 Blessed be Adonai,
because he has sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the voice of my petitions.
7 Adonai 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 yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to him.
8 Adonai is their strength.
He is a stronghold of yishu'ah ·salvation· to his anointed.
9 Save your people,
and bless your inheritance.
Be their shepherd also,
and bear them up forever.
* 28:4 . Quoted in 2 Tim 4:14