28 (R2). PRAYER IN VIEW OF PSALM 18. (Alternations.)

R2 M p     1,2 For audience. Prayer.
            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.  
      q   3 For discrimination. Prayer.
            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.  
        N 4,5 Enemies. Imprecation.  
            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.  
            5. Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.  
  M p     6 For audience. Praise.
            6. Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.  
      q   7,8 For help. Praise.
            7. 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.  
            8. The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.  
        N 9 Enemies. Imprecation.  
            9. Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.