TO You I will cry, O LORD my Rock: do not be silent to me, lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

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

4 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.

5 Because they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.

6 Blessed be the LORD, because He has heard the voice of my supplications!

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

8 The LORD is their strength, and He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

9 Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them also, and bear them up forever. PSALM 28