Psalm 17

1A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, || Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit. 2My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly. 3You have proved my heart, || You have inspected by night, || You have tried me, You find nothing; My thoughts do not pass over my mouth. 4As for doings of man, || Through a word of Your lips I have observed || The paths of a destroyer; 5To uphold my goings in Your paths, || My steps have not slipped. 6I called You, for You answer me, || O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech. 7Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, || By Your right hand, from withstanders. 8Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings, 9From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, || [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me. 10They 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. 12His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, || As a young lion dwelling in secret places. 13Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, || Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword, 14From 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.