Psalms 17:3-10

³When 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.

⁴I gave earnest heed to the words of your lips.

⁵My steps have held fast to the paths of your precepts and in your tracks have my feet never stumbled.

⁶So I call you, O God, with assurance of answer; bend down your ear to me, hear what I say.

⁷Show your marvelous love, you who save from enemies those who take refuge at your right hand.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me in the shelter of your wings.

⁹From wicked people who do me violence, from deadly foes who crowd around me.

¹⁰They have closed their hearts to pity, the words of their mouths are haughty.