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

¹Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

²Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

³Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

⁵Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

⁶I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

⁷Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹³Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

¹⁴From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.