Psalms 17
1 A prayer of David. Listen, O Lord, to my innocence; attend to my piercing cry. Give heed to my prayer out of lips unfeigned.
Oratio David. Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.
2 Let my vindication come from you, your eyes see the truth.
De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant æquitates.
3 When you test my heart when you visit at night, and assay me like silver – you can find no evil. I am determined that my mouth should not lie.
Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.
4 I gave earnest heed to the words of your lips.
Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.
5 My steps have held fast to the paths of your precepts and in your tracks have my feet never stumbled.
Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.
6 So I call you, O God, with assurance of answer; bend down your ear to me, hear what I say.
Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.
7 Show your marvellous love, you who save from enemies those who take refuge at your right hand.
Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shelter of your wings.
A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me
9 From wicked people who do me violence, from deadly foes who crowd around me.
a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;
10 They have closed their hearts to pity, the words of their mouths are haughty.
adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.
11 Now they dog us at every step, keenly watching, to hurl us to the ground,
Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.
12 like a lion, longing to tear, like a young lion, lurking in secret.
Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.
13 Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked,
Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam
14 by your hand, O Lord, from those – whose portion of life is but of this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be full and their children satisfied.
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 In my innocence I will see your face, awake I am filled with a vision of you.
Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.
