Psalm 28

New King James Version

Rejoicing in Answered Prayer

A Psalm of David.

28 To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock:
^(A)Do not be silent to me,
^(B)Lest, if You are silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.
²Hear the voice of my supplications
When I cry to You,
^(C)When I lift up my hands ^(D)toward Your holy sanctuary.

³Do not ^[a]take me away with the wicked
And with the workers of iniquity,
^(E)Who speak peace to their neighbors,
But evil is in their hearts.
⁴^(F)Give them according to their deeds,
And according to the wickedness of their endeavors;
Give them according to the work of their hands;
Render to them what they deserve.
⁵Because ^(G)they do not regard the works of the Lord,
Nor the operation of His hands,
He shall destroy them
And not build them up.

⁶Blessed be the Lord,
Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!
⁷The Lord is ^(H)my strength and my shield;
My heart ^(I)trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.

⁸The Lord is ^[b]their strength,
And He is the ^(J)saving refuge of His ^[c]anointed.
⁹Save Your people,
And bless ^(K)Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
^(L)And bear them up forever.