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Psalms 17

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. ✦ 2Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. ✦ 3Thou 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. ✦ 4Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. ✦ 5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. ✦ 6I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. ✦ 7Shew 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. ✦ 8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, ✦ 9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. ✦ 10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. ✦ 11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; ✦ 12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. ✦ 13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: ✦ 14From 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. ✦ 15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 119 ·7Ps 7 ·6Ps 44 ·51 Sam 24 ·4Ps 66 ·3Ps 37 ·3Matt 4 ·3Ps 5 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 17 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 17David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 17Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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