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1Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

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

3Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.

4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

5Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

6Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

7Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will I praise him.

8Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

9Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.

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Parallel translations · Psalms 28:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

KJV · King James Version (1611)

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.

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

A psalm for David, at the finishing of the tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, O ye children of God: bring to the Lord the offspring of rams.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate Psalms 28:1.

  • Psalms 83:1

    O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

  • Psalms 42:9

    I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Psalms 3:4

    I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. [Selah

  • Psalms 18:2

    Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

  • Psalms 143:7

    Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • Psalms 30:9

    What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

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