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Do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you are silent, I might as well give up and die.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not drag me away with the wicked— with those who do evil— those who speak friendly words to their neighbors while planning evil in their hearts.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Give them the punishment they so richly deserve! Measure it out in proportion to their wickedness. Pay them back for all their evil deeds! Give them a taste of what they have done to others.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They care nothing for what the LORD has done or for what his hands have made. So he will tear them down, and they will never be rebuilt!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Praise the LORD! For he has heard my cry for mercy.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD gives his people strength. He is a safe fortress for his anointed king.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Save your people! Bless Israel, your special possession. Lead them like a shepherd, and carry them in your arms forever.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/28-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! 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