Psalms 17

1 A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.

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

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.

4 As for doings of man, Through a word of Your lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

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

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

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

8 Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

9 From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me.

10 They have closed up their fat, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

11 “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set 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.

13 Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your 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.

15 I—in righteousness, I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!