# Psalm 28 ## Psalm 28:1 - [KJV] 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] 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. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Psalm 28:1 - ## Psalm 28:2 - [KJV] Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. - [ASV] Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. - [YLT] Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle. ### Notes on Psalm 28:2 - ## Psalm 28:3 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts. - [YLT] Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart. ### Notes on Psalm 28:3 - ## Psalm 28:4 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Give 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. - [YLT] Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them. ### Notes on Psalm 28:4 - ## Psalm 28:5 - [KJV] Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. - [ASV] Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up. - [YLT] For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up. ### Notes on Psalm 28:5 - ## Psalm 28:6 - [KJV] Blessed *be* the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. - [ASV] Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. - [YLT] Blessed *is* Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications. ### Notes on Psalm 28:6 - ## Psalm 28:7 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Jehovah 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. - [YLT] Jehovah *is* my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him. ### Notes on Psalm 28:7 - ## Psalm 28:8 - [KJV] The LORD *is* their strength, and he *is* the saving strength of his anointed. - [ASV] Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. - [YLT] Jehovah *is* strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed *is* He. ### Notes on Psalm 28:8 - ## Psalm 28:9 - [KJV] Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. - [ASV] Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever. - [YLT] Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age! ### Notes on Psalm 28:9 -