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Psalms

A collection of songs and prayers expressing a wide range of emotions and thoughts on faith.

Chapter 28

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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.

Geneva: A Psalme of Dauid. Vnto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.

KJV: Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Geneva: Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.

KJV: 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.

Geneva: Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.

KJV: 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.

Geneva: Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward.

KJV: Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Geneva: For they regarde not the woorkes of the Lorde, nor the operation of his handes: therefore breake them downe, and builde them not vp.

KJV: Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Geneva: Praised be the Lorde, for he hath heard the voyce of my petitions.

KJV: The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Geneva: The Lorde is my strength and my shielde: mine heart trusted in him, and I was helped: therfore mine heart shall reioyce, and with my song will I praise him.

KJV: The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Geneva: The Lorde is their strength, and he is the strength of the deliuerances of his anointed.

KJV: Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

Geneva: Saue thy people, and blesse thine inheritance: feede them also, and exalt them for euer.