Psalms 17

¹Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:

²I will love you, O Lord my strength.

³The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

⁴Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.

⁵The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.

⁶The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.

⁷In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears.

⁸The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.

⁹A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.

¹¹And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.

¹²And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

¹³At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.

¹⁴And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

¹⁵And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.

¹⁶Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Lord, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.

¹⁷He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.

¹⁸He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.

¹⁹They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector.

²⁰And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.

²¹And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands.

²²For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God.

²³For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.

²⁴And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.

²⁵And the Lord will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.

²⁶With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,

²⁷and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.

²⁸For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.

²⁹For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness.

³⁰For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.

³¹As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of the Lord has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope in him.

³²For who is God, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God?

³³It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate.

³⁴It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.

³⁵It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.

³⁶And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach me.

³⁷You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.

³⁸I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.

³⁹I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet.

⁴⁰And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.

⁴¹And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.

⁴²They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them.

⁴³And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.

⁴⁴You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.

⁴⁵A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.

⁴⁶The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.

⁴⁷The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:

⁴⁸O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.

⁴⁹And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.

⁵⁰Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:

⁵¹magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.

Psalms 17

¹Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said:

²I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

³The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

⁴Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

⁵The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

⁶The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

⁷In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

⁸The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.

⁹There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.

¹⁰He bowed the heavens, and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

¹¹And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.

¹²And he made darkness his cover, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.

¹³At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

¹⁴And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

¹⁵And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

¹⁶Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.

¹⁷He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

¹⁹They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.

²⁰And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.

²¹And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

²²Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.

²³For all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.

²⁴And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

²⁵And the Lord will reward me according to my justice: and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

²⁶With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

²⁷And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.

²⁸For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.

²⁹For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

³⁰For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.

³¹As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.

³²For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

³³God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.

³⁴Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

³⁵Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.

³⁶And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

³⁷Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.

³⁸I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.

³⁹I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

⁴⁰And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.

⁴¹And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.

⁴²They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

⁴³And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.

⁴⁴Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

⁴⁵A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

⁴⁶The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.

⁴⁷The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

⁴⁸O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.

⁴⁹And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

⁵⁰Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.

⁵¹Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David, his anointed: and to his seed for ever.