David pleads with the Lord to hear his voice and grant his petitions—He prays: Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance.

 UNTO thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be ^asilent^• to me, I become like them that go down into the ^bpit^•.

 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy ^aoracle^•.

 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which ^aspeak^{• b}peace to their neighbours, but ^cmischief is in their hearts.

 Give them according to their ^adeeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their ^bdesert^•.

 Because they regard not the ^aworks^• of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart ^atrusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.