1 O Lord, to You I call. O my Rock, listen to me. If You will not hear me, I will be like those who have gone down to 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 my cry for loving-kindness as I call to You for help, and when I lift up my hands to Your holy place.

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 drag me away with the sinful and with those who do bad things. They speak peace with their neighbors, while sin 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 P ay them for their work and for the sins they do. Pay them for the works of their hands. Give them what they have earned.

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 T hey do not think about the works of the Lord and what His hands have done. So He will pull them down and not build them up again.

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 M ay honor and thanks be given to the Lord, because He has heard my prayer.

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

7 T he Lord is my strength and my safe cover. My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. So my heart is full of joy. I will thank Him with my song.

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. He is a safe place for His chosen one.

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

9 S ave Your people and bring good to what is Yours. Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

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