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Chapter 17
Psal OEB 17:1  Listen, O Lord, to my innocence; attend to my piercing cry. Give heed to my prayer out of lips unfeigned.
Psal OEB 17:2  Let my vindication come from you, your eyes see the truth.
Psal OEB 17:3  When you test my heart when you visit at night, and assay me like silver --- you can find no evil. I am determined that my mouth should not lie.
Psal OEB 17:4  I gave earnest heed to the words of your lips.
Psal OEB 17:5  My steps have held fast to the paths of your precepts and in your tracks have my feet never stumbled.
Psal OEB 17:6  So I call you, O God, with assurance of answer; bend down your ear to me, hear what I say.
Psal OEB 17:7  Show your marvellous love, you who save from enemies those who take refuge at your right hand.
Psal OEB 17:8  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shelter of your wings.
Psal OEB 17:9  From wicked people who do me violence, from deadly foes who crowd around me.
Psal OEB 17:10  They have closed their hearts to pity, the words of their mouths are haughty.
Psal OEB 17:11  Now they dog us at every step, keenly watching, to hurl us to the ground,
Psal OEB 17:12  like a lion, longing to tear, like a young lion, lurking in secret.
Psal OEB 17:13  Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked,
Psal OEB 17:14  by your hand, O Lord, from those whose portion of life is this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be full and their children satisfied.
Psal OEB 17:15  In my innocence I will see your face, awake I am filled with a vision of you.