1 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 Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,

when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

3 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 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 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 Blessed be Yahweh,

because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

7 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 Yahweh is their strength.

He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

9 Save your people,

and bless your inheritance.

Be their shepherd also,

and bear them up forever.

1 'n Psalm van Dawid. Ek roep U aan, o HERE! My rots, draai nie stilswygend van my af weg nie, sodat ek nie, as U teenoor my bly swyg, word soos die wat in die kuil neerdaal nie.

2 Hoor die stem van my smekinge as ek U aanroep om hulp, as ek my hande ophef na die binneste van u heiligdom.

3 Ruk my nie weg saam met die goddelose en saam met die werkers van ongeregtigheid nie; wat van vrede spreek met hulle naaste, maar daar is kwaad in hulle hart.

4 Gee hulle na hul dade en na die boosheid van hul handelinge; gee hulle na die werk van hul hande; vergeld hulle na hulle dade.

5 Omdat hulle nie let op die dade van die HERE of op die werk van sy hande nie, sal Hy hulle afbreek en hulle nie bou nie.

6 Geloofd sy die HERE, want Hy het die stem van my smekinge gehoor.

7 Die HERE is my sterkte en my skild; op Hom het my hart vertrou, en ek is gehelp; daarom jubel my hart en sal ek Hom loof met my gesang.

8 Die HERE is 'n sterkte vir hulle, en Hy is 'n vesting van verlossing vir sy gesalfde.

9 Verlos u volk en seën u erfdeel, en wees vir hulle 'n herder en dra hulle tot in ewigheid.