Psalms 17:6-15

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

⁷Show your marvellous 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,

¹²like a lion, longing to tear, like a young lion, lurking in secret.

¹³Arise, Lord, face them and fell them. By your sword set me free from the wicked,

¹⁴by your hand, O Lord, from those — whose portion of life is but of this world. But let your treasured ones have food in plenty may their children be full and their children satisfied.

¹⁵In my innocence I will see your face, awake I am filled with a vision of you.