Psalms 28:2-9

²Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

³Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who 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 according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

⁵Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

⁷Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

⁸Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

⁹Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.