Psalms 17
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PSALM 17.
1Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul#2 Kings 22. .
2I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:
3The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
5The sor#1 Kings 21. rows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
6The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.
7In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.
8The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
9There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
10He bowed the heavens, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
11And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.
12And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
13At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.
14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.
15And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.
16Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were discovered: At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the spirit of thy wrath.
17He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
18He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
19They prevented me in the day of my affliction: and the Lord became my protector.
20And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.
21And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:
22Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.
23For till his judgments are in my sight: and his justices I have not put away from me.
24And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.
25And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.
26With the holy, thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent.
27And with the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
29For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God enlighten my darkness.
30For by thee I shall be delivered from temptation; and through my God I shall go over a wall.
31As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.
32For who is God but the Lord? Or who is God but our God?
33God who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.
34Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.
35Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow.
36And thou hast given me the protection of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up: And thy discipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline, the same shall teach me.
37Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.
38I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.
39I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.
40And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
41And thou hast made my enemies turn their back upon me, and hast destroyed them that hated me.
42They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.
43And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets.
44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
45A people, which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.
46The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.
47The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted:
48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enemies.
49And thou wilt lift me up above them that rise up against me: from the unjust man thou wilt deliver me.
50Therefore will I give glory to thee, O Lord, among the nations, and I will sing a psalm to thy name.
51Giving great deliverance to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed: and to his seed for ever.
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Psalm 17
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In the Shadow of Your Wings
A #[Ps. 86, title; 142, title]Prayer of David.
1Hear a just cause, O Lord; #Ps. 142:6; [Ps. 61:1; Jer. 7:16]attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
2From your presence #[Ps. 26:1]let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!
3You have #See Job 23:10 tried my heart, you have #Job 31:14 visited me by #Ps. 16:7; [Job 33:15] night,
you have #Judg. 7:4; Zech. 13:9; 1 Pet. 1:7; [Ps. 139:1; Mal. 3:2, 3]tested me, and you will find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
4With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.
5My steps have #Job 23:11; [Ps. 44:18]held fast to your paths;
my feet have not slipped.
6I #Ps. 86:6, 7; 116:1, 2 call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
# See Ps. 31:2 incline your ear to me; hear my words.
7 #
Ps. 31:21 Wondrously show#17:7 Or Distinguish me by your steadfast love,
O Savior of those who seek refuge
from #Ps. 44:5; 59:1; 139:21their adversaries at your right hand.
8Keep me as #Deut. 32:10; Zech. 2:8 the apple of your eye;
hide me in #Ps. 36:7; 57:1; 63:7; 91:4; [Matt. 23:37; Luke 13:34]; See Ruth 2:12the shadow of your wings,
9from the wicked who do me violence,
my deadly enemies who #[1 Sam. 23:26]surround me.
10 # [Ps. 119:70] They close their hearts to pity;
with their mouths they #Ps. 31:18; 1 Sam. 2:3speak arrogantly.
11They have now surrounded our #[Ps. 89:51] steps;
they set their eyes to #Ps. 62:4cast us to the ground.
12He is like a lion eager to tear,
as a young lion #[Ps. 10:8, 9]lurking in ambush.
13Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him!
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
14from men by your hand, O Lord,
from #[Ps. 10:18; Luke 16:8; 20:34] men of the world whose #Matt. 6:2, 5, 16; Luke 16:25 portion is in this life.#17:14 Or from men whose portion in life is of the world
You fill their womb with treasure;#17:14 Or As for your treasured ones, you fill their womb
they are satisfied with #[Job 21:11]children,
and they leave their abundance to their infants.
15As for me, I shall #Job 33:26; 1 John 3:2; [Ps. 11:7] behold your face in righteousness;
when I #Isa. 26:19; Dan. 12:2 awake, I shall be #[Ps. 16:11]satisfied with your likeness.
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