1 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.
4 Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.
5 For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.
6 Blessed `is' Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.
7 Jehovah `is' my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.
8 Jehovah `is' strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed `is' He.
9 Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!
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Today's Verse
And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
Verse Of The DayThe tone shifts to praise once David declares "the LORD is my strength and my shield," blessing God for hearing his supplications. He closes by asking God to save and feed His people, a theme carried into Psalms 30:11-12; continue to Psalms 29.
