Psalm 17 #catechesis/bible/psalm
[!abstract] A just man’s prayer in tribulation against the malice of his enemy.
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GR προσευχὴ τοῦ Δαυιδ εἰσάκουσον κύριε τῆς δικαιοσύνης μου πρόσχες τῇ δεήσει μου ἐνώτισαι τῆς προσευχῆς μου οὐκ ἐν χείλεσιν δολίοις
LA Exaudi, Domine, justitiam meam; intende deprecationem meam. Auribus percipe orationem meam, non in labiis dolosis.
EN Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceeds not from deceitful lips.
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GR ἐκ προσώπου σου τὸ κρίμα μου ἐξέλθοι οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἰδέτωσαν εὐθύτητας
LA De vultu tuo judicium meum prodeat; oculi tui videant æquitates.
EN Let my judgment come forth from your countenance: let your eyes behold the things that are equitable.
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GR ἐδοκίμασας τὴν καρδίαν μου ἐπεσκέψω νυκτός ἐπύρωσάς με καὶ οὐχ εὑρέθη ἐν ἐμοὶ ἀδικία
LA Probasti cor meum, et visitasti nocte; igne me examinasti, et non est inventa in me iniquitas.
EN You have proved my heart, and visited it by night, you have tried me by fire: and iniquity has not been found in me.
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GR ὅπως ἂν μὴ λαλήσῃ τὸ στόμα μου τὰ ἔργα τῶν ἀνθρώπων διὰ τοὺς λόγους τῶν χειλέων σου ἐγὼ ἐφύλαξα ὁδοὺς σκληράς
LA Ut non loquatur os meum opera hominum: propter verba labiorum tuorum, ego custodivi vias duras.
EN That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of your lips, I have kept hard ways.
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GR κατάρτισαι τὰ διαβήματά μου ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις σου ἵνα μὴ σαλευθῶσιν τὰ διαβήματά μου
LA Perfice gressus meos in semitis tuis, ut non moveantur vestigia mea.
EN Perfect my goings in your paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
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GR ἐγὼ ἐκέκραξα ὅτι ἐπήκουσάς μου ὁ θεός κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου ἐμοὶ καὶ εἰσάκουσον τῶν ῥημάτων μου
LA Ego clamavi, quoniam exaudisti me, Deus; inclina aurem tuam mihi, et exaudi verba mea.
EN I have cried to you, for you, O God, have heard me: O incline your ear unto me, and hear my words.
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GR θαυμάστωσον τὰ ἐλέη σου ὁ σῴζων τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ σὲ ἐκ τῶν ἀνθεστηκότων τῇ δεξιᾷ σου
LA Mirifica misericordias tuas, qui salvos facis sperantes in te.
EN Show forth your wonderful mercies; you who save them that trust in you.
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GR φύλαξόν με ὡς κόραν ὀφθαλμοῦ ἐν σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου σκεπάσεις με
LA A resistentibus dexteræ tuæ custodi me ut pupillam oculi. Sub umbra alarum tuarum protege me
EN From them that resist your right hand keep me, as the apple of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings.
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GR ἀπὸ προσώπου ἀσεβῶν τῶν ταλαιπωρησάντων με οἱ ἐχθροί μου τὴν ψυχήν μου περιέσχον
LA a facie impiorum qui me afflixerunt. Inimici mei animam meam circumdederunt;
EN From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:
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GR τὸ στέαρ αὐτῶν συνέκλεισαν τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν ἐλάλησεν ὑπερηφανίαν
LA adipem suum concluserunt: os eorum locutum est superbiam.
EN They have shut up their fat: their mouth has spoken proudly.
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[!note]- Their fat…
That is, their bowels of compassion: for they have none for me. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR ἐκβάλλοντές με νυνὶ περιεκύκλωσάν με τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν ἔθεντο ἐκκλῖναι ἐν τῇ γῇ
LA Projicientes me nunc circumdederunt me; oculos suos statuerunt declinare in terram.
EN They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
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GR ὑπέλαβόν με ὡσεὶ λέων ἕτοιμος εἰς θήραν καὶ ὡσεὶ σκύμνος οἰκῶν ἐν ἀποκρύφοις
LA Susceperunt me sicut leo paratus ad prædam, et sicut catulus leonis habitans in abditis.
EN They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.
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GR ἀνάστηθι κύριε πρόφθασον αὐτοὺς καὶ ὑποσκέλισον αὐτούς ῥῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ ἀσεβοῦς ῥομφαίαν σου ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν τῆς χειρός σου
LA Exsurge, Domine: præveni eum, et supplanta eum: eripe animam meam ab impio; frameam tuam
EN Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one; your sword
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GR κύριε ἀπὸ ὀλίγων ἀπὸ γῆς διαμέρισον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ζωῇ αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν κεκρυμμένων σου ἐπλήσθη ἡ γαστὴρ αὐτῶν ἐχορτάσθησαν υἱῶν καὶ ἀφῆκαν τὰ κατάλοιπα τοῖς νηπίοις αὐτῶν
LA 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.
EN from the enemies of your hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from your hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
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[!note]- Divide them from the few, etc…
That is, cut them off from the earth, and the few trifling things thereof; which they are so proud of, or divide them from the few; that is, from thy elect, who are but few; that they may no longer have it in their power to oppress them. It is not meant by way of a curse or imprecation; but, as many other the like passages in the psalms, by way of a prediction, or prophecy of what should come upon them, in punishment of their wickedness. Ibid. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
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GR ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ ὀφθήσομαι τῷ προσώπῳ σου χορτασθήσομαι ἐν τῷ ὀφθῆναι τὴν δόξαν σου
LA Ego autem in justitia apparebo conspectui tuo; satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua.
EN But as for me, I will appear before your sight in justice: I shall be satisfied when your glory shall appear.
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[!note]- Thy hidden stores…
Your secret treasures, out of which you furnish those earthly goods, which, with a bountiful hand you have distributed both to the good and the bad. Commentary on the Old Testament (1752)
