By David.

• ¹To 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.

• ²Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
• when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

• ³Don’t draw me away with the wicked,
• with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,
• but mischief is in their hearts.

• ⁴Give 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.

• ⁵Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh,
• nor the operation of his hands,
• he will break them down and not build them up.

• ⁶Blessed be Yahweh,
• because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

• ⁷Yahweh 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.

• ⁸Yahweh is their strength.
• He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

• ⁹Save your people,
• and bless your inheritance.

• Be their shepherd also,
• and bear them up forever.