Ps 17
Intersession prayer of David: (pondering on mistake of adults like Adam)
1 Listen attentively; Jehovah of our Justification. Hearken to our shout of joy and give ears to our intersession (tephillah), which is not at all, from deceitful lips.
2 My eyes had envisioned the verdicts of equity/uprightness that go forth from YOUR presence:
3 visit by night and test things that pass across my mouth - as fused metal in a foundry- to find out the plans of my heart:
4 The deed/work of Adam and the spoken-word from his lips, would have preserved him on the path and from the tyrant/robber.
5 - he would have sustained our steps at once and we would have been unshaken on the circular-track.
6 - we would have called out to our main-Leader (El) and he would have spread out his ear to our words, listen up and answer us.
7 - he would have risen up, and separated/distinguished those that take refuge in his kindness and save them out from his right-hand:
8 he would have preserved and hide our daughters in a shade, like the apple of the eye, to the extreme end.
9 The faces of our enemies are burly/heavily built, and the wicked surround our souls;
10 they shut us up like fat - and their mouth rehearsed swelling things:
11 they spread out and revolve round us, and they positioned their eyes on our steps and things of our land-
12 as lion will prey/pull into pieces in secret places; the infidel in a walled village are sitting down with mental pictures/imagination for making money:
13 Arise, and advance to submit/kneel down in the presence of Jehovah - for souls to escape the sword of the wicked;
14 because, even the share/allotment of Jehovah which are in the hands of the adults, are hidden-treasure by which the adults replenish their own belly and satiated their sons in their own lifespan, leaving alone the rest alive as infants (to be exploited).
15 for me, I have envisioned HIS countenance for JUSTIFICATION and I am satiated when I reach the peak of its similitude/visual representations.
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