Psalms 16

¹The prayer of David. Hear, o Lord my justice: attend my petition. With thine ears hear my prayer, not in deceitful lips.

²From thy countenance let my judgment proceed: let thine eyes see equities.

³Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night: by fire thou hast examined me, and there is no iniquity found in me.

⁴That my mouth speak not the works of men: for the words of thy lips I have kept the hard ways.

⁵Perfit my passes in thy paths, that my steps be not moved.

⁶I have cried, because thou hast heard me, o God: incline thine ear to me, and hear my words.

⁷Make thy mercies marvelous, which savest them that hope in thee.

⁸From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of the eye. Under the shadow of thy wings protect me:

⁹from the face of the impious, that have afflicted me. Mine enemies have compassed my soul,

¹⁰they have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken pride.

¹¹Casting me forth now have they compassed me: they have set their eyes to bend them unto the earth.

¹²They have taken me as a lion ready to the prey: and as a lion's whelp dwelling in hid places.

¹³Arise Lord, prevent him, and supplant him: deliver my soul from the impious, thy sword

¹⁴from the enemies of thy hand. Lord from a few out of the land divide them, in their life: their belly is filled of thy secrets. They are filled with children: and they have left their remnants to their little ones.

¹⁵But I in justice shall appear to thy sight: I shall be filled when thy glory shall appear?