1. To the Overseer. --By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: --I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
2. Jehovah [is] my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God [is] my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
3. The `Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.
4. Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
5. Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.
6. In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.
7. And shake and tremble doth the earth, And foundations of hills are troubled, And they shake--because He hath wrath.