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Psalm 28:1

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28:1To you, O Lord, I cry out!

My protector,1 do not ignore me!2

If you do not respond to me,3

I will join4 those who are descending into the grave.5

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Heb “my rocky summit.” The Lord is compared to a rocky summit where one can find protection from enemies. See Ps 18:2.
  2. 2 Heb “do not be deaf from me.”
  3. 3 Heb “lest [if] you are silent from me.”
  4. 4 Heb “I will be equal with.”
  5. 5 Heb “the pit.” The noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit, cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

To you, Lord, I call;

you are my Rock,

do not turn a deaf ear to me.

For if you remain silent,

I will be like those who go down to the pit.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Lord, I call to you;

my rock, do not be deaf to me.

If you remain silent to me,

I will be like those going down to the Pit.

NLTNew Living Translation

I pray to you, O Lord, my rock.

Do not turn a deaf ear to me.

For if you are silent,

I might as well give up and die.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

To you, O Yahweh, I call.

O my rock, do not be deaf to me.

Or else, if you are silent to me,

then I will become like those descending to the pit.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.