Psalms 17

1 Yahweh, listen to me while I plead with you to act justly toward me. Hear me while I call out to you to help me. Pay attention to what I say while I pray because I am speaking [MTY] honestly/truthfully.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goeth not out of deceitful lips.

2 You are the one who is able to declare that I (am innocent/have not done anything that was wrong) because you see/know that I am telling the truth.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal.

3 You know what I think, [even] at night; you have examined what I say and do, and you know that I have determined to never tell any lies.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

4 I have not done like others do; I have always done what is right [IDM], and I have not acted cruelly toward others.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

5 I have always done what you told me to do [IDM], I have (never failed to do/always done) [LIT] those things.

Uphold my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

6 O God, I pray to you because you answer me; please listen [MTY] to what I am saying.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thy ear to me, and hear my speech.

7 Show me that you faithfully love me. By your great power [MTY] rescue those who (run to/trust in) you to protect them from their enemies.

Show thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them who put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

8 Protect me as people carefully protect their own eyes; protect me like [birds] protect [their babies] under their wings [MET].

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9 Do not allow wicked people to attack me; my enemies surround me, wanting to kill me.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

10 They never pity [IDM] anyone, and they are always boasting.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

11 They have hunted/searched for me and found me. They surround me, watching for an opportunity to throw me to the ground.

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

12 They are like lions [SIM] that are ready to tear apart the animals that they capture; they are like young lions that are hiding, waiting to pounce [on their prey].

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

13 Yahweh, come and (oppose/fight against) my enemies and defeat them! Use your sword to save me from those wicked people!

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, who is thy sword:

14 Yahweh, by your power [MTY] rescue me from those people who are interested [only] in things here in this world. But you provide plenty of food for those whom you love dearly; their children also have many things that their grandchildren will inherit.

From men who are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

15 Yahweh, because I act righteously, I will [some day] see you [SYN]. When I awake, I will see you face-to-face, and then I will be happy.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.