Psalm 17:1 - Revised Standard Version Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition HEAR THE right (my righteous cause), O Lord; listen to my shrill, piercing cry! Give ear to my prayer, that comes from unfeigned and guileless lips. American Standard Version (1901) Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Common English Bible Listen to what’s right, LORD; pay attention to my cry! Listen closely to my prayer; it’s spoken by lips that don’t lie! Catholic Public Domain Version Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. |
Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
let thy ear be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant which I now pray before thee day and night for the people of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned.
Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!
I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.
I cry with my voice to the Lord, with my voice I make supplication to the Lord,
Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me!
Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!
The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.
He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;
But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;
Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”
Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;