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Psalm 28
New King James Version

### Rejoicing in Answered Prayer

#### A Psalm of David.

28 To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock:
(A)Do not be silent to me,
(B)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,
(C)When I lift up my hands (D)toward Your holy sanctuary.

3 Do not [a]take me away with the wicked
And with the workers of iniquity,
(E)Who speak peace to their neighbors,
But evil is in their hearts.
4 (F)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 (G)they do not regard the works 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 (H)my strength and my shield;
My heart (I)trusted in Him, and I am helped;
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
And with my song I will praise Him.

8 The Lord is [b]their strength,
And He is the (J)saving refuge of His [c]anointed.
9 Save Your people,
And bless (K)Your inheritance;
Shepherd them also,
(L)And bear them up forever.

#### Footnotes

1. Psalm 28:3 drag
2. Psalm 28:8 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. the strength of His people
3. Psalm 28:8 Commissioned one, Heb. messiah

#### Cross references

1. Psalm 28:1 : Ps. 35:22; 39:12; 83:1
2. Psalm 28:1 : Ps. 88:4; 143:7; Prov. 1:12
3. Psalm 28:2 : Ps. 5:7
4. Psalm 28:2 : Ps. 138:2
5. Psalm 28:3 : Ps. 12:2; 55:21; 62:4; Jer. 9:8
6. Psalm 28:4 : [Ps. 62:12]; 2 Tim. 4:14; [Rev. 18:6; 22:12]
7. Psalm 28:5 : Is. 5:12
8. Psalm 28:7 : Ps. 18:2; 59:17
9. Psalm 28:7 : Ps. 13:5; 112:7
10. Psalm 28:8 : Ps. 20:6
11. Psalm 28:9 : [Deut. 9:29; 32:9; 1 Kin. 8:51; Ps. 33:12]; 106:40
12. Psalm 28:9 : Deut. 1:31; Is. 63:9

New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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