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Prayer for Vindication and Protection

A prayer of David.[a]

17 
O Yahweh, hear a just cause.

Hear my cry; heed my prayer

I make without deceitful lips.

2 Let my vindication come forth from you;

let your eyes see fairness.

3 You have tried my heart;

you have examined me by night;

you have tested me; you found nothing.

I have decided that my mouth will not transgress.

4 As for the works of humankind,

by the word of your lips,

I have kept from the ways of the violent.

5 I have held my steps in your path

My feet will not slip.

6 As for me, I have called on you

because you will answer me, O God.

Incline your ear to me.

Hear my words.[b]

7 Show wondrously your acts of loyal love,

O Savior of those who take refuge

at your right hand[c]

from those who rise up against them.

8 Keep me as the apple of your eye.[d]

Hide me in the shadow of your wings

9 from the presence[e] of the wicked who destroy me,

those enemies against my life,

they that surround me.

10 They have shut off their calloused[f] heart;

with their mouth they speak arrogantly.

11 Now they surround us at our every step.

They intend[g]

to pin[h] me to the ground.

12 He is like[i] a lion; he longs to tear apart,

and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

13 Rise up, O Yahweh, confront him.[j]

Make him bow down.

Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked,

14 from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world.

Their share is in this life,[k] and you fill their stomach with your treasure.

They are satisfied with children.

They bequeath their excess to their children.

15 By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face.

Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 17:6 Hebrew “word”
  3. Psalm 17:7 Or “saving by your right hand those”
  4. Psalm 17:8 Literally “the little man of the daughter of your eye”
  5. Psalm 17:9 Literally “face”
  6. Psalm 17:10 Or “fat”
  7. Psalm 17:11 Literally “set their eyes”
  8. Psalm 17:11 Literally “to stretch”
  9. Psalm 17:12 Literally “His image”
  10. Psalm 17:13 Literally “his face”
  11. Psalm 17:14 Literally “the life”