KJV King James Version
[A Psalm] of David. 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.
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Psalm 28:1
[A Psalm] of David. 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Of David. 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.
WEB World English Bible
By David. To you, Yahweh, 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 American Standard Version
A Psalm of David. 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 28
1 [A Psalm] of David. 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.
4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵ֘לֶ֤יךָH413 · elto(wards)יְהוָ֨ה׀H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֶקְרָ֗אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toצוּרִי֮H6697 · tsurRocks (of Goats)אַֽל־H408 · alnotתֶּחֱרַ֪שׁH2790 · cha.rashto plow/plotמִ֫מֶּ֥נִּיH4480 · minfromפֶּן־H6435 · penlestתֶּֽחֱשֶׁ֥הH2814 · cha.shahbe silentמִמֶּ֑נִּיH4480 · minfromוְ֝נִמְשַׁ֗לְתִּיH4911 · ma.shalto likenעִם־H5973 · imwithי֥וֹרְדֵיH3381 · ya.radto go downבֽוֹר׃H953 · borpit
Cross-references
Psalm 143:7Hear 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.Psalm 18:2The 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.Psalm 88:4-6I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength:Psalm 83:1A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:Isaiah 26:4Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength:Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.Revelation 20:3And 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.Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.Psalm 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.Psalm 30:9What profit [is there] in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?Psalm 35:22[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.Psalm 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.Psalm 5:2Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.Psalm 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.Psalm 77:1To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.Psalm 142:1Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.Psalm 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I [am] a stranger with thee, [and] a sojourner, as all my fathers [were].
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