Psalms 17
1 A Prayer of David. Hear, O Yahweh, the right, Attend to my loud cry, Give ear unto my prayer, on lips that would not deceive:
The preier of Dauid. Lord, here thou my riytfulnesse; biholde thou my preier. Perseuye thou with eeris my preier; not maad in gileful lippis.
2 From before thee, let my sentence come forth, Thine eyes, behold with equity.
Mi doom come `forth of thi cheer; thin iyen se equite.
3 Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:
Thou hast preued myn herte, and hast visitid in niyt; thou hast examynyd me bi fier, and wickidnesse is not foundun in me.
4 As for the workings of men, By the word of thy lips, have, I, taken heed of the paths of the violent one.
That my mouth speke not the werkis of men; for the wordis of thi lippis Y haue kept harde weies.
5 Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:
Make thou perfit my goyngis in thi pathis; that my steppis be not moued.
6 I, have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O GOD, —Incline thine ear unto me, Hear thou my speech:
I criede, for thou, God, herdist me; bowe doun thin eere to me, and here thou my wordis.
7 Let thy lovingkindness be distinguished, thou Saviour of such as seek refuge from them who lift themselves up against thy right hand.
Make wondurful thi mercies; that makist saaf `men hopynge in thee.
8 Guard me, as the pupil of the eye, —Under the shadow of thy wings, wilt thou hide me:
Kepe thou me as the appil of the iye; fro `men ayenstondynge thi riyt hond. Keuere thou me vndur the schadewe of thi wyngis;
9 From the face of lawless ones who have treated me with violence, the foes of my soul, who come round against me:
fro the face of vnpitouse men, that han turmentid me. Myn enemyes han cumpassid my soule;
10 Their own fat [heart], have they shut up, —With their mouth, have they spoken proudly.
thei han closide togidere her fatnesse; the mouth of hem spak pride.
11 As for our own goings, now, have they surrounded us, —Their eyes, they fix, bending to the earth:
Thei castiden me forth, and han cumpassid me now; thei ordeyneden to bowe doun her iyen in to erthe.
12 His likeness, is as a lion, that longeth to rend, and as a young lion, lurking in secret places.
Thei, as a lioun maad redi to prey, han take me; and as the whelp of a lioun dwellynge in hid places.
13 Rise, Yahweh! Confront his face, Bring him down, Deliver my soul from the lawless one [who is] thy sword:
Lord, rise thou vp, bifor come thou hym, and disseyue thou hym; delyuere thou my lijf fro the `vnpitouse,
14 From men [who are] thy hand, O Yahweh, From the men of this age, whose portion, is among the living, and, with thy treasure, thou fillest their bosom, —They must be satisfied with sons, And must leave their abundance to their children: —
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.
15 I, in righteousness, shall behold thy face, Shall be satisfied when awakened by a vision of thee.
But Y in riytfulnesse schal appere to thi siyt; Y schal be fillid, whanne thi glorie schal appere.
