[1] A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, || Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit. [2] My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly. [3] You have proved my heart, || You have inspected by night, || You have tried me, You find nothing; My thoughts do not pass over my mouth. [4] As for doings of man, || Through a word of Your lips I have observed || The paths of a destroyer; [5] To uphold my goings in Your paths, || My steps have not slipped. [6] I called You, for You answer me, || O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech. [7] Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, || By Your right hand, from withstanders. [8] Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings, [9] From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, || [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me. [10] They have closed up their fat, || Their mouths have spoken with pride: [11] “Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land. [12] His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, || As a young lion dwelling in secret places. [13] Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, || Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword, [14] From men, Your hand, O YHWH, || From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, || And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, || They are satisfied [with] sons, || And have left their abundance to their sucklings. [15] I—in righteousness, || I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!
