Book of Psalms, No. 17
Psalms 17 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 17 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ Do hear what is righteous, O Jehovah; do pay attention to my entreating cry;1
Do give ear to my prayer without lips of deception.2 - ¶ From before you may my judgment go forth;3
May your own eyes behold uprightness.4 - ¶ You have examined my heart, you have made inspection by night,5
You have refined me; you will discover [that] I have not schemed.6
My mouth will not transgress.7 - ¶ As for the activities of men,[a]
By the word of your lips I myself have watched against the paths of the robber.8 - ¶ Let my steps take hold[b] on your tracks,9
[In which] my footsteps will certainly not be made to totter.10 - ¶ I myself do call upon you, because you will answer me, O God.[c]11
Incline your ear to me. Hear my saying.12 - ¶ Make your acts of loving-kindnesses[d] wonderful,13 O Savior of those seeking refuge
From the revolters against your right hand.14 - ¶ Keep me as the pupil of the eyeball,15
In the shadow of your wings may you conceal me,16 - ¶ Because of the wicked who have despoiled me.
The enemies against my soul themselves keep closing in upon me.17 - ¶ They have enclosed [themselves] with their own fat;18
With their mouth they have spoken in haughtiness;19 - ¶ As regards our steps, now they have surrounded us;20
They fix their eyes to incline to the earth.21 - ¶ His likeness is that of a lion that yearns to tear to pieces22
And that of a young lion sitting in concealed places. - ¶ Do rise up, O Jehovah; do confront him to the face;23
Make him bow down; do provide escape for my soul from the wicked one with your sword,24 - ¶ From men, [by] your hand, O Jehovah,25
From men of [this] system26 of things,[e] whose share is in [this] life,27
And whose belly you fill with your concealed treasure,28
¶ Who are satisfied with sons29
And who do lay up for their children what they leave over.30 - ¶ As for me, in righteousness I shall behold your face;31
I will be satisfied when awakening [to see] your form.[f]32
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Lit., “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ Lit., “Let there be a taking hold by my steps.” The Heb. verb in this phrase is in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
- ^ Lit., “your loving-kindnesses.”
- ^ “Of [this] system of things.” Or, “of the duration of life.” Heb., me·cheʹledh.
- ^ Or, “awakening as to your form,” M; by a correction, “looking at your form”; LXX, “your glory is seen.”
REFERENCES
- ^ Ps 5:2
- ^ Ps 145:18
- ^ Ps 37:6
- ^ Jb 1:8
- ^ Ps 11:5; 16:7; 1Co 4:4
- ^ Jb 23:10; Ps 26:2; 66:10; Je 9:7; Zc 13:9; Ml 3:3; 1Pe 1:7
- ^ Ps 39:1
- ^ Ps 119:9
- ^ 1Sa 2:9; Ps 119:133
- ^ Ps 18:36; 94:18; 121:3
- ^ Ps 55:16; 66:19
- ^ Ps 116:2; Is 37:17
- ^ Ps 31:21; La 3:22
- ^ Ex 15:6
- ^ De 32:10; Zc 2:8
- ^ Ru 2:12; Ps 36:7; 57:1; 63:7
- ^ 1Sa 24:11; Ps 35:4
- ^ De 32:15; Ps 119:70; Eze 16:49
- ^ 1Sa 2:3; Ps 31:18; 73:9
- ^ 1Sa 23:26
- ^ Ps 10:8
- ^ Ps 7:2
- ^ Ps 7:6
- ^ Ps 7:12
- ^ Ps 108:6
- ^ Ps 49:1; 1Ti 6:17
- ^ Ps 73:12; Jm 5:5
- ^ Jb 22:18; Ps 144:13; Mt 5:45
- ^ Ps 144:12
- ^ Ps 39:6
- ^ Jb 19:26
- ^ Ps 65:4
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