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, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into 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 petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief 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 work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on 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 don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

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

Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

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.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

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

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to 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. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.