1 T o You I will cry, O Lord my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

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 to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

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 take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors, 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 endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them what they deserve.

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 B lessed 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 their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

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

9 S ave Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.

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