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. Listen, O Lord, to my innocence; attend to my piercing cry. Give heed to my prayer out of lips unfeigned.
2 My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.
Let my vindication come from you, your eyes see the truth.
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.
When you test my heart when you visit at night, and assay me like silver – you can find no evil. I am determined that my mouth should not lie.
4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;
I gave earnest heed to the words of your lips.
5 To uphold my goings in Your paths, My steps have not slipped.
My steps have held fast to the paths of your precepts and in your tracks have my feet never stumbled.
6 I called You, for You answer me, O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.
So I call you, O God, with assurance of answer; bend down your ear to me, hear what I say.
7 Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, By Your right hand, from withstanders.
Show your marvelous love, you who save from enemies those who take refuge at your 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, hide me in the shelter of your wings.
9 From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me.
From wicked people who do me violence, from deadly foes who crowd around me.
10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:
They have closed their hearts to pity, the words of their mouths are haughty.
11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.
Now they dog us at every step, keenly watching, to hurl us to the ground,
12 His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
like a lion, longing to tear, like a young lion, lurking in secret.
13 Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword,
Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked,
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.
by your hand, O Lord, from those – whose portion of life is but of this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be full and their children satisfied.
15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!
In my innocence I will see your face, awake I am filled with a vision of you.
