1 ¶ Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent unto me lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like those that go down into the grave.

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.

2 H ear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

3 D o not catch me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

4 G ive them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render unto them their desert.

Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

5 B ecause they do not regard the works of the LORD nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up.

For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

6 ¶ Blessed be the LORD because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

Blessed Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

7 T he LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song I will praise him.

Jehovah my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

8 T he LORD is the strength of his people, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Jehovah strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed He.

9 S ave thy people and bless thine inheritance; feed them also and lift them up for ever.

Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!