Psalm 17:1 - Y'all Version Bible Listen, YHWH, to my righteous plea. Open your ears to my prayer, it does not proceed from deceitful lips. 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 prayer that is made in this place.
now let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the children of Israel which we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
I know that YHWH will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Hear my prayer, YHWH. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
YHWH is near to all those who call on ʜɪᴍ, to all who call on ʜɪᴍ in truth.
YHWH has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, ʜᴇ has repaid me.
As soon as they hear of me they will obey me. The foreigners will submit themselves to me.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
Pay attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.
Hᴇ has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.
From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
But most certainly, God has listened. Hᴇ has heard the voice of my prayer.
YHWH judges the peoples. Vindicate me, YHWH, according to my righteousness and my integrity.
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says YHWH.
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said about him, “Look, a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!”
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God,