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 the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

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

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes look upon equity.

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 mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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 word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

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

My steps have held fast to thy paths, my feet have not slipped.

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

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, [and] hear my speech.

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

Shew thy marvelous lovingkindness, O thou that savest them which 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, 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 that spoil me, my deadly enemies, that 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.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

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

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were 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, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul 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 [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: they are satisfied with children, 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, I shall behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.