⁰To David.

¹To you, Yahweh, I call out, my rock; do not keep silent from me, lest you hush from me and I become like those who go down to the pit.

²Hear the sound of my pleas when I cry for help to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy innermost room.

³Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with those who work trouble, who speak wholeness with their neighbors while evil is in their heart.

⁴Give to them according to their work and according to the badness of their deeds; according to the work of their hands give to them; return their recompense to them.

⁵For they do not give heed to the work of Yahweh, and to the deed of his hands; he will tear them down and will not rebuild them.

⁶Blessed be Yahweh, for he has heard the sound of my pleas.

⁷Yahweh is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusted, and I was helped; my heart exulted, and with my song I give thanks to him.

⁸Yahweh is strength to them, and he is the stronghold of deliverance for his anointed.

⁹Save your people and bless your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.