Psalms 17

¹Unto the end, to the servant of our Lord David, who spake to our Lord the words of this canticle, in the day, that our Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul, and he said: I will love thee o Lord my strength:

²Our Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer.

³My God is my helper, and I will hope in him. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my receiver.

⁴Praising I will invocate our Lord: & I shall be saved from mine enemies.

⁵The sorrows of death have compassed me: and torrents of iniquity have troubled me.

⁶The sorrows of hell have compassed me: the snares of death have prevented me.

⁷In my tribulation I have invocated our Lord, and have cried to my God: And he hath heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry in his sight, hath entered into his ears.

⁸The earth was shaken & trembled: the foundations of mountains were troubled, and were moved, because he was wrath with them.

⁹Smoke arose in his wrath: and fire flamed up from his face: coals were kindled from him.

¹⁰He bowed the heavens, and descended: and darkness under his feet.

¹¹And he ascended upon the cherubs, and flew: he flew upon the wings of winds.

¹²And he put darkness his covert, his tabernacle is round about him: darksome water in the clouds of the air.

¹³Because of the brightness in his sight the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

¹⁴And our Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

¹⁵And he shot his arrows, and dissipated them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

¹⁶And the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed. At thy rebuke, o Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.

¹⁷He sent from on high, and took me: and he received me out of many waters.

¹⁸He delivered me from my most strong enemies, and from them that hated me: because they were made strong over me.

¹⁹They prevented me in the day of mine affliction: and our Lord was made my protector.

²⁰And he brought me out into largeness: he saved me, because he would me.

²¹And our Lord will reward me according to my justice, and according to the purity of my hands he will reward me.

²²Because I have kept the ways of our Lord, neither have I done impiously from my God.

²³Because all his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not repelled from me.

²⁴And I shall be immaculate with him, and shall keep me from mine iniquity.

²⁵And our Lord will reward me according to my justice: & according to the purity of my hands in the sight of his eyes.

²⁶With the holy thou shalt be holy, and with the innocent man thou shalt be innocent.

²⁷And with the elect thou shalt be elect: and with the perverse thou shalt be perverted.

²⁸Because thou wilt save the humble people: and the eyes of the proud thou wilt humble.

²⁹Because thou dost illuminate my lamp o Lord: my God illuminate my darkness.

³⁰Because in thee I shall be delivered from tentation, and in my God I shall go over the wall.

³¹My God his way is unpolluted: the words of our Lord are examined by fire: he is protector of all that hope in him.

³²For who is God but our Lord? Or who is God but our God?

³³God that girded me with strength: and made my way immaculate.

³⁴That perfited my feet as it were of harts: and setting me upon high things.

³⁵That teacheth my hands to battle: and hast put mine arms as a bow of brass.

³⁶And hast given me the protection of thy salvation: & thy right hand hath received me. And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.

³⁷Thou hast enlarged my passes under me: and my steps are not weakened:

³⁸I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them: and will not return till they fail.

³⁹I will break them, neither shall they be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

⁴⁰And thou hast girded me with strength to battle: and hast supplanted them that rise against me under me.

⁴¹And mine enemies thou hast given me their back, & them that hate me thou hast destroyed.

⁴²They cried, neither was there that would save them, to our Lord, neither did he hear them.

⁴³And I will break them to powder, as the dust before the face of wind: as the durt of the streets I will destroy them.

⁴⁴Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt appoint me to be head of the Gentiles.

⁴⁵A people which I knew not hath served me: in the hearing of the ear it hath obeyed me.

⁴⁶The children being aliens have lied to me, the children aliens are inveterated, and have halted from their paths.

⁴⁷Our Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and the God of my salvation be exalted.

⁴⁸O God which givest me revenges, & subduest peoples under me, my deliverer from mine angry enemies.

⁴⁹And from them that rise up against me thou wilt exalt me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.

⁵⁰Therefore will I confess to thee among nations, o Lord: and will say a Psalm to thy name.

⁵¹Magnifying the salvations of his king, and doing mercy to his Christ David, and to his seed for ever.