1 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the Lord, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
8 The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.
<html><b>Do not cause me to be drawn</b> Heb. תמשכני, do not draw me with the wicked; treras moy in Old French.</html>
<html><b>and I will thank Him with my song</b> Now what is the thanks?…<b>The Lord is strength to them</b> to those who rely on Him, viz. the entire house of Israel, at the time that He is the stronghold of the salvations of His anointed.</html>
<html><b>and tend them</b> Heb. ורעם, an expression of pasture (מרעה).</html>