Psalms 17 Intro: God the defense of the righteous. (A Prayer of David.)
1 Give me right words, O Lord; speak and thy servant shall hear thee; attend unto my cry, and give ear unto my prayer. I come not unto thee out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me; thou shalt find nothing evil in me, for I am purposed my mouth shall not transgress concerning the works of men.
4 By the word of thy lips I have kept out of the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear, O God, my speech, and incline thine ear unto me.
7 Show thy marvelous loving-kindness, O thou that savest them which put their trust in thee, by thy right hand from those that rise up.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings from the wicked that oppress me.
9 My deadly enemies compass me about;
10 They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
