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v1
O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer I make without deceitful lips.
v2
Let my vindication come forth from you; let your eyes see fairness.
v3
You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress.
v4
As for the works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept from the ways of the violent.
v5
I have held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
v6
As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words. ^[Hebrew “word”]
v7
Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand ^[Or “saving by your right hand those”] from those who rise up against them.
v8
Keep me as the apple of your eye. ^[Literally “the little man of the daughter of your eye”] Hide me in the shadow of your wings
v9
from the presence ^[Literally “face”] of the wicked who destroy me, those enemies against my life, they that surround me.
v10
They have shut off their calloused ^[Or “fat”] heart; with their mouth they speak arrogantly.
v11
Now they surround us at our every step. They intend ^[Literally “set their eyes”] to pin ^[Literally “to stretch”] me to the ground.
v12
He is like ^[Literally “His image”] a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.
v13
Rise up, O Yahweh, confront him. ^[Literally “his face”] Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked,
v14
from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world. Their share is in this life, ^[Literally “the life”] and you fill their stomach with your treasure. They are satisfied with children. They bequeath their excess to their children.
v15
By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form.