Salmo 17

¹Oração de Davi: Ouve, SENHOR, a minha justiça; presta atenção ao meu choro, dá ouvidos à minha oração de lábios que não enganam.

²De diante de teu rosto saia o meu julgamento; teus olhos observarão o que é justo.

³Tu já provaste o meu coração, tu me visitaste de noite; tu me investigaste, e nada achaste; decidi que minha boca não transgredirá.

⁴Quanto às obras dos homens, conforme a palavra de teus lábios eu me guardei dos caminhos do violento;

⁵Guiando meu andar em teus caminhos, para que meus passos não tropecem.

⁶Eu clamo a ti, ó Deus, porque tu me respondes; inclina teus ouvidos a mim, escuta a minha palavra.

⁷Revela maravilhosamente tuas misericórdias, tu salvas aos que confiam em ti com tua mão direita daqueles se se levantam contra ti.

⁸Guarda-me como a pupila do olho; esconde-me debaixo da sombra de tuas asas,

⁹De diante dos perversos que me oprimem; dos meus mortais inimigos que me cercam.

¹⁰Eles se enchem de gordura; com sua boca falam arrogantemente.

¹¹Agora eles têm nos cercado em nossos passos; eles fixam seus olhos para nos derrubar ao chão.

¹²Semelhantes ao leão, que deseja nos despedaçar, e ao leãozinho, que fica em esconderijos.

¹³Levanta-te, SENHOR, confronta-o, derruba-o; livra minha alma d as mãos do perverso com tua espada.

¹⁴Dos homens com tua mão, SENHOR, dos homens que são do mundo, cuja parte está n esta vida, cujo ventre enches de teu secreto tesouro; os filhos se fartam, e deixam sua sobra para suas crianças.

¹⁵Mas eu olharei para teu rosto em justiça; serei satisfeito de tua semelhança, quando eu despertar.

¹A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

²Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

³Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

⁵Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

⁶I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

⁷Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

⁹From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

¹⁰They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

¹¹They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹³Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

¹⁴From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

¹⁵As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

¹Oratio David. Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.

²De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant æquitates.

³Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.

⁴Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.

⁵Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.

⁶Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.

⁷Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.

⁸A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me

⁹a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;

¹⁰adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.

¹¹Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.

¹²Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.

¹³Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam

¹⁴ab inimicis manus tuæ. Domine, a paucis de terra divide eos in vita eorum; de absconditis tuis adimpletus est venter eorum. Saturati sunt filiis, et dimiserunt reliquias suas parvulis suis.

¹⁵Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.

¹Προσευχὴ τοῦ Δαυείδ. Εἰσάκουσον, Κύριε, τῆς δικαιοσύνης μου, πρόσχες τῇ δεήσει μου· ἐνώτισαι τῆς προσευχῆς μου οὐκ ἐν χείλεσιν δολίοις.

²ἐκ προσώπου σου τὸ κρίμα μου ἐξέλθοι, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἰδέτωσαν εὐθύτητας.

³ἐδοκίμασας τὴν καρδίαν μου, ἐπεσκέψω νυκτός· ἐπύρωσάς με, καὶ οὐχ εὑρέθη ἐν ἐμοὶ ἀδικία.

⁴ὅπως ἂν μὴ λαλήσῃ τὸ στόμα μου τὰ ἔργα τῶν ἀνθρώπων, διὰ τοὺς λόγους τῶν χειλέων σου ἐγὼ ἐφύλαξα ὁδοὺς σκληράς.

⁵κατάρτισαι τὰ διαβήματά μου ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις σου, ἵνα μὴ σαλευθῇ τὰ διαβήματά μου.

⁶ἐγὼ ἐκέκραξα, ὅτι ἐπήκουσάς μου, ὁ θεός· κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου ἐμοὶ καὶ εἰσάκουσον τῶν ῥημάτων μου.

⁷θαυμάστωσον τὰ ἐλέη σου, ὁ σώζων τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ σὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀνθεστηκότων τῇ δεξιᾷ σου.

⁸φύλαξόν με ὡς κόραν ὀφθαλμοῦ. ἐν σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου σκεπάσεις με

⁹ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀσεβῶν τῶν ταλαιπωρησάντων με. οἱ ἐχθροί μου τὴν ψυχήν μου περιέσχον,

¹⁰τὸ στέαρ αὐτῶν συνέκλεισαν, τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν ἐλάλησεν ὑπερηφανίαν·

¹¹ἐκβάλλοντές με νυνὶ περιεκύκλωσάν με, τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν ἔθεντο ἐκκλῖναι ἐν τῇ γῇ·

¹²ὑπέλαβόν με ὡσεὶ λέων ἕτοιμος εἰς θήραν, καὶ ὡσεὶ σκύμνος οἰκῶν ἐν ἀποκρύφοις.

¹³ἀνάστηθι, Κύριε, πρόφθασον αὐτοὺς καὶ ὑποσκέλισον αὐτούς, ῥῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ ἀσεβοῦς, ῥομφαίαν σου

¹⁴ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν τῆς χειρός σου· Κύριε ἀπολύων ἀπὸ γῆς, διαμέρισον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ζωῇ αὐτῶν· καὶ τῶν κεκρυμμένων σου ἐπλήσθη ἡ γαστὴρ αὐτῶν, ἐχορτάσθησαν ὑείων καὶ ἀφῆκαν τὰ κατάλοιπα τοῖς νηπίοις αὐτῶν.

¹⁵ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ ὀφθήσομαι τῷ προσώπῳ σου, χορτασθήσομαι ἐν τῷ ὀφθῆναι τὴν δόξαν σου.