1 B y 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.

To 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.

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

Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

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

Do 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.

4 G ive 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.

Give 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.

5 F or 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.

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.

6 B lessed Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Blessed be the Lord, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!

7 J ehovah 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.

The 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.

8 J ehovah strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed He.

The Lord is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

9 S ave Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!

Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.