1 Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

16:1 Oratio David. Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam;
intende deprecationem meam.
Auribus percipe orationem meam,
non in labiis dolosis.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

2 De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat;
oculi tui videant æquitates.

3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

3 Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte;
igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

4 Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum:
propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.

5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

5 Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis,
ut non moveantur vestigia mea.

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

6 Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus;
inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

7 Mirifica misericordias tuas,
qui salvos facis sperantes in te.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

8 A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me
ut pupillam oculi.
Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

9 a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt.
Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;

10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

10 adipem suum concluserunt:
os eorum locutum est superbiam.

11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

11 Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me;
oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.

12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

12 Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam,
et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.

13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

13 Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum:
eripe animam meam ab impio;
frameam tuam

14 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

14 ab inimicis manus tuæ.
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 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

15 Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo;
satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.