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| [1]Hear the right, O Lord, consider my cry: hearken unto my prayer of lips unfeigned. |
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| [2]Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes behold equity. |
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| [3]Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tried me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend. |
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| [4]Concerning the works of men, by the words of thy lips I kept me from the paths of the cruel man. |
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| [5]Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feet do not slide. |
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| [6]I have called upon thee: surely thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. |
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| [7]Show thy marvelous mercies, thou that art the Savior of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand. |
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| [8]Keep me as the apple of the eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings, |
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| [9]From the wicked that oppress me, from mine enemies, which compass me round about for my soul. |
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| [10]They are enclosed in their own fat, and they have spoken proudly with their mouth. |
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| [11]They have compassed us now in our steps: they have set their eyes to bring down to the ground: |
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| [12]Like as a lion that is greedy of prey, and as it were a lion's whelp lurking in secret places. |
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| [13]Up Lord, disappoint him: cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked with thy sword, |
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| [14]From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children have enough, and leave the rest of their substance for their children. |
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| [15]But I will behold thy face in righteousness, and when I awake, I shall be satisfied with thine image. |
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