Psalm 16 — The Holy Bible

A prayer of David.

Listen, O Lord of my righteousness;

Attend to my supplication;

Give ear to my prayer that is not with deceitful lips.

From Your face let my judgment come;

Let my eyes behold uprightness.

You tested my heart, when You visited me in the night;

You tried me in the fire, and found nothing unjust in me.

That my mouth might not speak of the works of men,

I held to hard ways because of the words of Your lips.

Restore my steps in Your paths,

That my footsteps may not slip.

I cried out, because You listened to me, O God;

Incline Your ear to me, and hear my words.

Magnify Your mercies,

O You who save those who hope in You

From those who rise up against Your right hand.

Keep me as the apple of Your eye;

In the shelter of Your wings, You will shelter me

From the face of the ungodly who trouble me.

My enemies surrounded my soul;

Their fat enclosed them;

Their mouth spoke arrogantly.

Casting me out, they now surround me;

They set their eyes to bend down to the earth.

They seized me like a lion ready to tear its prey,

Like a young lion lurking in secret places.

Arise, O Lord, outrun them and trip up their heels;

Rescue my soul from the ungodly,

And Your sword from the enemies of Your hand.

O Lord, destroy them from the earth;

Scatter them in their life.

Their belly is filled with Your hidden things;

They are satisfied with their sons,

And they leave their possessions to their children.

As for me, in righteousness I shall behold Your face;

I shall be satisfied when Your glory is revealed.