Psalms 17
1 A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
2 My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.
Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
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 hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.
4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;
That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.
5 To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.
Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
6 I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.
7 Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.
Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.
8 Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow 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 wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:
10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.
They have cast me forth and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion 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, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one: 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.
From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!
But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.
