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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.

Psalm 16

A miktam[a] of David.

Keep me safe,(A) my God,
    for in you I take refuge.(B)

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;(C)
    apart from you I have no good thing.”(D)
I say of the holy people(E) who are in the land,(F)
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
Those who run after other gods(G) will suffer(H) more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names(I) on my lips.

Lord, you alone are my portion(J) and my cup;(K)
    you make my lot(L) secure.
The boundary lines(M) have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    surely I have a delightful inheritance.(N)
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;(O)
    even at night(P) my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
    With him at my right hand,(Q) I will not be shaken.(R)

Therefore my heart is glad(S) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(T)
10 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,(U)
    nor will you let your faithful[b] one(V) see decay.(W)
11 You make known to me the path of life;(X)
    you will fill me with joy in your presence,(Y)
    with eternal pleasures(Z) at your right hand.(AA)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
  2. Psalm 16:10 Or holy