Psalmorum 17
1 Oratio David. Exaudi Domine iustitiam meam: intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
2 De vultu tuo iudicium meum prodeat: oculi tui videant æquitates.
Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte: igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.
You have proved mine heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum ego custodivi vias duras.
Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis: ut non moveantur vestigia mea.
Hold up my activities in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me Deus: inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.
I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
Show your marvellous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me, ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me:
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt,
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
11 Proiicientes me nunc circumdederunt me: oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
12 Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam: et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.
Like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Exurge Domine, præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio, frameam tuam
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 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.
From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 Ego autem in iustitia apparebo conspectui tuo: satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.
As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.
