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16 Oratio David. Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.

De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant aequitates.

Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.

Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.

Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.

Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.

Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.

A resistentibus dexterae tuae custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me

a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;

10 adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.

11 Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.

12 Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad praedam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.

13 Exsurge, Domine: praeveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam

14 ab inimicis manus tuae. Domine, a paucis de terra divide eos in vita eorum; de absconditis tuis adimpletus est venter eorum. Saturati sunt filiis, et dimiserunt reliquias suas parvulis suis.

15 Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.

The Hope of the Faithful, and the Messiah’s Victory

A (A)Michtam of David.

16 Preserve[a] me, O God, for in You I put my trust.

O my soul, you have said to the Lord,
“You are my Lord,
(B)My goodness is nothing apart from You.”
As for the saints who are on the earth,
“They are the excellent ones, in (C)whom is all my delight.”

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god;
Their drink offerings of (D)blood I will not offer,
(E)Nor take up their names on my lips.

O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You [b]maintain my lot.
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance.

I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel;
My [c]heart also instructs me in the night seasons.
(F)I have set the Lord always before me;
Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will [d]rest in hope.
10 (G)For You will not leave my soul in [e]Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to [f]see corruption.
11 You will show me the (H)path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:1 Watch over
  2. Psalm 16:5 Lit. uphold
  3. Psalm 16:7 Mind, lit. kidneys
  4. Psalm 16:9 Or dwell securely
  5. Psalm 16:10 The abode of the dead
  6. Psalm 16:10 undergo