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Psalms 17
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1(18) For the end, [a Psalm] of David, the servant of the Lord; [the words] which he spoke to the Lord, [even] the words of this Song, in the day in which the Lord delivered him out the hand of all his enemies, and out the hand of Saul: and he said: I will love you, O Lord, my strength.
1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
2The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in him; [he is] my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.
2Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
3I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.
3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
4The pangs of death compassed me, and the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.
4As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
5The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me.
5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
6And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of this holy temple, and my cry shall enter before him, [even] into his ears.
6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and were shaken, because God was angry with them.
7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
8There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.
8Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9And he bowed the heaven, and came down: and thick darkness was under his feet.
9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
10And he mounted on cherubs and flew: he flew on the wings of winds.
10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
11And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, [even] dark water in the clouds of the air.
11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
12At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.
13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
14And he sent forth [his] weapons, and scattered them; and multiplied lightnings, and routed them.
14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
15And the springs of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blasting of the breath of your wrath.
15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.