Psalms 28:1-5

¹A Psalm of David. To thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou shouldst be silent to me, I should become like them that go down into the pit.

²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.

³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

⁴Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

⁵Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will destroy them, and not build them up.