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| [1]A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit. |
[1]Hear the right, O Lord, consider my cry: hearken unto my prayer of lips unfeigned. |
| [2]From before thee my judgment doth go out; Thine eyes do see uprightly. |
[2]Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes behold equity. |
| [3]Thou hast proved my heart, Thou hast inspected by night, Thou hast tried me, Thou findest nothing; My thoughts pass not over my mouth. |
[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. |
| [4]As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer; |
[4]Concerning the works of men, by the words of thy lips I kept me from the paths of the cruel man. |
| [5]To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden. |
[5]Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feet do not slide. |
| [6]I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech. |
[6]I have called upon thee: surely thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. |
| [7]Separate wonderfully Thy kindness, O Saviour of the confiding, By Thy right hand, from withstanders. |
[7]Show thy marvelous mercies, thou that art the Savior of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand. |
| [8]Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me. |
[8]Keep me as the apple of the eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings, |
| [9]From the face of the wicked who spoiled me. Mine enemies in soul go round against me. |
[9]From the wicked that oppress me, from mine enemies, which compass me round about for my soul. |
| [10]Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride: |
[10]They are enclosed in their own fat, and they have spoken proudly with their mouth. |
| [11]`Our steps now have compassed [him];' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land. |
[11]They have compassed us now in our steps: they have set their eyes to bring down to the ground: |
| [12]His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places. |
[12]Like as a lion that is greedy of prey, and as it were a lion's whelp lurking in secret places. |
| [13]Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword, |
[13]Up Lord, disappoint him: cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked with thy sword, |
| [14]From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, And [with] Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied [with] sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings. |
[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. |
| [15]I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Thy form! |
[15]But I will behold thy face in righteousness, and when I awake, I shall be satisfied with thine image. |