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.” Hear, O Lord, [the cause of] righteousness, attend unto my entreaty, give ear unto my prayer, coming from lips without deceit.
2 My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.
Let from thy presence my sentence come forth; let thy eyes behold what is right.
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; thou hast thought of me in the night; thou hast refined me—thou couldst find nothing: my purpose doth not pass beyond [the words of] my mouth.
4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;
Among the deeds of men did I observe, by the word of thy lips, the paths of the dissolute.
5 To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.
My steps held firmly to thy tracks, [and] my footsteps did not slip.
6 I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
I call on thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God: incline thy ear unto me, hear my speech.
7 Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.
Show marvelously thy loving-kindnesses, O thou that savest those who put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them] by thy right hand.
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; conceal 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 wicked that despoil me, my enemies, who, to take my life, compass me about.
10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.
On our steps they now encompass us: they direct their eyes to turn aside in the land.
12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
Every man is just like a lion that is greedy to tear his prey, and like a young lion lurking in a covert.
13 Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword,
Arise, O Lord, prevent him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, who is 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 these men—thy hand—O Lord, from the men of this world, whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hidden treasure: they have children in plenty, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!
As for me, in righteousness shall I behold thy face: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with contemplating thy likeness.
