Psalms 17
1 The preier of Dauid. Lord, here thou my riytfulnesse; biholde thou my preier. Perseuye thou with eeris my preier; not maad in gileful lippis.
Oratio David. [Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.
2 Mi doom come `forth of thi cheer; thin iyen se equite.
De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant æquitates.
3 Thou hast preued myn herte, and hast visitid in niyt; thou hast examynyd me bi fier, and wickidnesse is not foundun in me.
Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.
4 That my mouth speke not the werkis of men; for the wordis of thi lippis Y haue kept harde weies.
Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.
5 Make thou perfit my goyngis in thi pathis; that my steppis be not moued.
Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.
6 I criede, for thou, God, herdist me; bowe doun thin eere to me, and here thou my wordis.
Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.
7 Make wondurful thi mercies; that makist saaf `men hopynge in thee.
Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
8 Kepe thou me as the appil of the iye; fro `men ayenstondynge thi riyt hond. Keuere thou me vndur the schadewe of thi wyngis;
A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me
9 fro the face of vnpitouse men, that han turmentid me. Myn enemyes han cumpassid my soule;
a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;
10 thei han closide togidere her fatnesse; the mouth of hem spak pride.
adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.
11 Thei castiden me forth, and han cumpassid me now; thei ordeyneden to bowe doun her iyen in to erthe.
Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.
12 Thei, as a lioun maad redi to prey, han take me; and as the whelp of a lioun dwellynge in hid places.
Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.
13 Lord, rise thou vp, bifor come thou hym, and disseyue thou hym; delyuere thou my lijf fro the `vnpitouse,
Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam
14 delyuere thou thi swerd fro the enemyes of thin hond. Lord, departe thou hem fro a fewe men of `the lond in the lijf of hem; her wombe is fillid of thin hid thingis. Thei ben fillid with sones; and thei leften her relifis to her litle children.
ab inimicis manus tuæ. Domine, a paucis de terra divide eos in vita eorum; de absconditis tuis adimpletus est venter eorum. Saturati sunt filiis, et dimiserunt reliquias suas parvulis suis.
15 But Y in riytfulnesse schal appere to thi siyt; Y schal be fillid, whanne thi glorie schal appere.
Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.]
