Psalms 17
1 A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.
“A psalm of David.” Hear the righteous cause, O LORD! Attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer from lips without deceit!
2 My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.
May my sentence come forth from thy presence; May thine eyes behold uprightness!
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.
Provest thou my heart, visitest thou me in the night, Triest thou me like gold, thou shalt find nothing!
4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;
My thoughts do not vary from my lips. As to the deeds of men, Through the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.
Support my steps in thy paths, That my feet may not slip!
6 I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
I call upon thee, O God! for thou wilt hear me; Incline thine ear to me, and listen to my prayer!
7 Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.
Show forth thy loving-kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand Them that seek refuge in thee from their adversaries!
8 Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,
Guard me as the apple of the eye; Hide 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 who assault me, From my deadly enemies who compass me about!
10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
They shut up their hard heart; With their mouth they speak haughtily.
11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.
They encompass us in all our steps; They fix their eyes upon us, that they may cast us on the ground.
12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
They are like a lion, eager for his prey; Like a young lion, lurking 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 them, cast them down! Deliver me from the wicked by 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 men, by thy hand, O LORD! from men of the world, Whose portion is in life; whom thou loadest with thy treasure; Whose children have enough, and leave their superfluity to their children.
15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!
But I through righteousness shall see thy face; I shall be satisfied with the revival of thy countenance.
