Self-interpreting Bible
Psalms 17
1David appealeth to God for his innocence, and prayeth to be saved from his enemies: 10he sheweth their pride and eagerness to ruin him: 13he prayeth against worldly men, expressing his own confidence in God.
0 A aPrayer of David.
- a: Ps. 72:20
1 HEAR bthe 1right, O LORD, cattend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, 2that goeth not out of feigned lips.
2 Let dmy sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold ethe things that are equal.
3 Thou fhast *proved mine heart; thou hast gvisited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; hI am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, iby the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- i: Pr. 2:10 - 15 , Ps. 119:9 , Ps. 119:11 , Ro. 12:2 , 1Pe. 5:8
5 jHold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps 3slip not.
6 kI have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Shew thy lmarvellous lovingkindness, O thou 4that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.
8 mKeep me as the *apple of the eye, hide me under nthe shadow of thy wings,
9 From the wicked 5that oppress me, from 6my deadly enemies, who *compass me about.
- 5: Heb. that waste me.
- 6: Heb. my enemies against the soul.
- *: compass-surround.
10 They oare *inclosed in their own fat: pwith their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They qhave now *compassed us in our steps: they have rset their eyes bowing down to the earth;
- q: 1Sa. 23:26 , 1Sa. 24:2 , 1Sa. 24:3 , 1Sa. 26:2 , 1Sa. 26:3
- *: compass-surround.
- r: Ps. 7:2 , Ps. 10:8 - 10 , Ps. 56:5 , Ps. 56:6 , Pr. 28:15
12 7Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion 8lurking in secret places.
- 7: Heb. the likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to raven.
- 8: Heb. sitting.
13 sArise, O LORD, 9disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, twhich is 10thy sword:
14 11From men which are thy uhand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have vtheir portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: 12they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
- 11: Or, From men by thine hand.
- u: Is. 10:5 , Is. 10:6 , Lu. 16:8
- v: Lu. 16:25 , Ja. 5:5 , Job 21:7 - 13 , Job 12:6 , Ps. 73:3 - 7 , Ps. 73:12
- 12: Or, their children are full.
15 As for me, wI will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be xsatisfied, ywhen I awake, with thy zlikeness.