Psalms 28:2-6

²Hear my loud entreaty, as I cry for help to you, lifting my hands, O Lord, towards your holy chancel.

³Take me not off with the wicked, nor with the workers of wrong, whose speech to their neighbors is friendly, while evil is in their heart.

⁴Give them as they have done, as their wicked deeds deserve. As their hands have wrought, so give to them: requite to them their deserts.

⁵They are blind to all that the Lord does, to all that his hands have wrought; and so he will tear them down, to build them up no more.

⁶Blest be the Lord, who has heard my voice as I plead for mercy.