1. A Prayer of David. O Jehovah, hear righteousness; listen to my cry; give ear to my prayer, for it is not in lips of deceit.
2. Let my judgment go out from Your face; Your eyes see uprightly.
3. You will test my heart; You will visit in the night; You will refine me; You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.
4. As to the doings of men, by the Words of Your lips I keep from the paths of the violent.
5. My steps have kept in Your tracks so that my strides have not slipped.
6. I have called on You, for You will answer me, O God; bow down Your ear to me and hear my word.
7. Set out your wonderful loving-kindness by Your right hand, O Savior of those who trust in You, from those rising against them.
8. Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings,
9. from the face of the wicked who stripped me; against my soul my foes encircle me.
10. They are enclosed in their own fat; their mouth speaks proudly;
11. now they have hemmed in our steps; they set their eyes to extending to the earth;
12. like a lion who longs to tear, and like a young lion sitting in hidden dens.
13. Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face and bow him down! Deliver my soul from the wicked, by Your sword,
14. from men, by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and their belly You fill with Your treasure; they are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.
15. As for me, in righteousness I will look upon Your face; when I awaken, I shall be satisfied by Your image.