Psalms 17

1 A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.

A prayer of David. Hearken, O Lord of my righteousness, attend to my petition; give ear to my prayer not [uttered] with deceitful lips.

2 My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.

Let my judgment come forth from thy presence; let mine eyes behold righteousness.

3 You have proved my heart, You have inspected by night, You have tried me, You find nothing; My thoughts do not pass over my mouth.

Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited [me] by night; thou hast tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: [I am purposed] that my mouth shall not speak [amiss].

4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded [myself from] hard ways.

5 To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.

Direct my steps in thy paths, that my steps slip not.

6 I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.

I have cried, for thou heardest me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken to my words.

7 Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.

Shew the marvels of thy mercies, thou that savest them that hope in thee.

8 Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist thy right hand: thou shalt screen me by the covering of thy wings,

9 From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me.

from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me: mine enemies have compassed about my soul.

10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

They have enclosed [themselves with] their own fat: their mouth has spoken pride.

11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.

They have now cast me out and compassed me round about: they have set their eyes [so as] to bow them down to the ground.

12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret [places].

13 Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword,

Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down: deliver my soul from the ungodly: [draw] thy sword,

14 From men, Your hand, O YHWH, From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, They are satisfied [with] sons, And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

because of the enemies of thine hand: O Lord, destroy them from the earth; scatter them in their life, though their belly has been filled with thy hidden [treasures]: they have been satisfied with uncleanness, and have left the remnant [of their possessions] to their babes.

15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!

But I shall appear in righteousness before thy face: I shall be satisfied when thy glory appears.