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.

Let my judgment go out from Your face; Your eyes see uprightly.

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.

As to the doings of men, by the Words of Your lips I keep from the paths of the violent.

My steps have kept in Your tracks so that my strides have not slipped.

I have called on You, for You will answer me, O God; bow down Your ear to me and hear my word.

Set out your wonderful loving-kindness by Your right hand, O Savior of those who trust in You, from those rising against them.

Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

from the face of the wicked who stripped me; against my soul my foes encircle me.

They are enclosed in their own fat; their mouth speaks proudly;

now they have hemmed in our steps; they set their eyes to extending to the earth;

like a lion who longs to tear, and like a young lion sitting in hidden dens.

Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face and bow him down! Deliver my soul from the wicked, by Your sword,

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.

As for me, in righteousness I will look upon Your face; when I awaken, I shall be satisfied by Your image.