Psalms 17

1 The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained.

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

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes beholde equitie.

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

3 Thou hast prooued and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tryed me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.

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 Concerning the workes of men, by the wordes of thy lips I kept mee from the paths of the cruell man.

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

5 Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feete doe not slide.

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

6 I haue called vpon thee: surely thou wilt heare me, O God: incline thine eare to me, and hearken vnto my wordes.

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

7 Shewe thy marueilous mercies, thou that art the Sauiour of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand.

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

8 Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide me vnder the shadowe of thy wings,

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

9 From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule.

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

10 They are inclosed in their owne fat, and they haue spoken proudely with their mouth.

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

11 They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

“Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.

12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

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

13 Vp Lord, disappoint him: cast him downe: deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sworde,

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

14 From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.

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 But I will beholde thy face in righteousnes, and when I awake, I shalbe satisfied with thine image.

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