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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 17 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Psalm 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/16.htm" title="Psalm 16">◄</a> Psalm 17 <a href="../psalms/18.htm" title="Psalm 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/17-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A PRAYER OF DAVID. Hear, O YHWH, righteousness, attend my cry, "" Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My judgment goes out from before You; Your eyes see uprightly.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for doings of man, "" Through a word of Your lips I have observed "" The paths of a destroyer;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To uphold my goings in Your paths, "" My steps have not slipped.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I called You, for You answer me, "" O God, incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Separate Your kindness wonderfully, O Savior of the confiding, "" By Your right hand, from withstanders.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>From the face of the wicked who spoiled me, "" [From] my enemies in soul who go around against me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have closed up their fat, "" Their mouths have spoken with pride:<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Our steps have now surrounded [him]”; They set their eyes to turn aside in the land.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, "" As a young lion dwelling in secret places.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Arise, O YHWH, go before his face, "" Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Your sword,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I—in righteousness, "" I see Your face; I am satisfied, in awaking, [with] Your form!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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