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17:1  Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.
17:2  Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal.
17:3  You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
17:4  Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
17:5  Hold up my goings in your paths, that my footsteps slip not.
17:6  I have called on you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.
17:7  Show your marvelous loving kindness, O you that save by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
17:8  Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
17:9  From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
17:10  They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11  They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
17:12  Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13  Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
17:14  From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
17:15  As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.