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.
11Now they dog us at every step, keenly watching, to hurl us to the ground,
Psalms 17
Psalms 17:4-11