Sunday Psalm: Our Strength and Shield

Psalm 28

 

 

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.