Psalms 17

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.	1 Unto 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:
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.	2 I will love you, O Lord my strength.
3 Thou has proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou has tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.	3 The 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.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.	4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord. And I will be saved from my enemies.
5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.	5 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.
6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.	6 The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.
7 Shew 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.	7 In 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.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,	8 The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.
9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.	9 A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.
10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.	10 He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;	11 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.	12 And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:	13 At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.
14 From 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.	14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.	15 And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.
	16 Then 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.
	17 He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.
	18 He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.
	19 They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and the Lord became my protector.
	20 And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.
	21 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands.
	22 For I have preserved the ways of the Lord, and I have not behaved impiously before my God.
	23 For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.
	24 And I will be immaculate together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.
	25 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
	26 With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,
	27 and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.
	28 For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.
	29 For you illuminate my lamp, O Lord. My God, enlighten my darkness.
	30 For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.
	31 As 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.
	32 For who is God, except the Lord? And who is God, except our God?
	33 It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way immaculate.
	34 It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.
	35 It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.
	36 And 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.
	37 You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.
	38 I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.
	39 I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet.
	40 And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.
	41 And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.
	42 They cried out, but there was none to save them, to the Lord, but he did not heed them.
	43 And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.
	44 You will rescue me from the contradictions of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.
	45 A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.
	46 The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.
	47 The Lord lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:
	48 O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.
	49 And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.
	50 Because of this, O Lord, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:
	51 magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his Christ, and to his offspring, even for all time.