Psalms 17 LSV

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

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

3. 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. As for doings of man, through a word of Your lips I have observed the paths of a destroyer;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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. I—in righteousness, i see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Your form!