Psalms 28:1
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
- KJV
- Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- WEB
- To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- ASV
- Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- DARBY
- {[A Psalm] of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- BLB
- Of David. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> To You, O YHWH, I call out. O my Rock, do not be deaf to me, lest You be silent to me and I be likened with those descending to the Pit.
- ÅB
- Av David.
Til deg, Herre, roper jeg.
Min klippe, vær ikke døv for meg!
For hvis du tier og ikke svarer meg,
blir jeg lik dem som farer ned i graven. - OTB
- Til deg, Herre, roper jeg;
Min klippe, vær ikke døv for meg,
For hvis du tier for meg,
Blir jeg lik dem som går ned i graven. - B1930
- Av David. Til dig, Herre, roper jeg. Min klippe, vær ikke døv imot mig, forat jeg ikke, om du tier til mig, skal bli lik dem som farer ned i graven!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 143:7
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Read in contextPsalms 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Read in contextPsalms 88:4–6
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Read in contextProverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Read in contextPsalms 83:1
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Read in contextIsaiah 26:4
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Read in contextJob 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Read in contextRevelation 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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