Psalm 28:1 {27:1}
Good News Translation
O LORD, my defender, I call to you. Listen to my cry! If you do not answer me, I will be among those who go down to the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, do not refuse to hear me, for if you are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Contemporary English Version
Only you, LORD, are a mighty rock! Don't refuse to help me when I pray. If you don't answer me, I will soon be dead.

New American Bible
Of David. To you, LORD, I call; my Rock, do not be deaf to me, Do not be silent toward me, so that I join those who go down to the pit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou 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 3:4 I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.

Psalm 5:2 Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 77:1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

Psalm 142:1 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

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Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 42:9 I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me?

Isaiah 26:4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

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Psalm 35:22 Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.

Psalm 83:1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

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Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 69:15 Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 88:4-6 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Job 33:28 He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

Proverbs 1:12 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Isaiah 38:18 For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

Revelation 20:3 And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished. And after that, he must be loosed a little time.

Context
The LORD is My Strength
1A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.2Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.…
Cross References
Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

Psalm 22:29
All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.

Psalm 30:3
Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 35:22
Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 69:15
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 83:1
A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

Psalm 88:4
I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help,

Psalm 109:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David.

Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Proverbs 1:12
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Isaiah 38:18
For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

Psalm 27:14
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