Top Verses from Psalms 17  

As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness. (NIV)

As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You]. (AMP)

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. (KJV)

A prayer of David. Hear me, LORD, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer – it does not rise from deceitful lips. (NIV)

A Prayer of David. 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. (AMP)

Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. (KJV)

Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings (NIV)

Keep and guard me as the pupil of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings (AMP)

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, (KJV)

Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil; my mouth has not transgressed. (NIV)

You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me and find nothing [no evil purpose in me]; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. (NIV)

I have called upon You, O God, for You will hear me; incline Your ear to me and hear my speech. (AMP)

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

Show me the wonders of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes. (NIV)

Show Your marvelous loving-kindness, O You Who save by Your right hand those who trust and take refuge in You from those who rise up against them. (AMP)

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. (KJV)

My steps have held to your paths; my feet have not stumbled. (NIV)

My steps have held closely to Your paths [to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before]; my feet have not slipped. (AMP)

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. (KJV)

Though people tried to bribe me, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent through what your lips have commanded. (NIV)

Concerning the works of men, by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent (the paths of the destroyer). (AMP)

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

Let my vindication come from you; may your eyes see what is right. (NIV)

Let my sentence of vindication come from You! May Your eyes behold the things that are just and upright. (AMP)

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

By your hand save me from such people, LORD, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, may there be leftovers for their little ones. (NIV)

From men by Your hand, O Lord, from men of this world [these poor moths of the night] whose portion in life is idle and vain. Their bellies are filled with Your hidden treasure [what You have stored up]; their children are satiated, and they leave the rest [of their] wealth to their babes. (AMP)

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. (KJV)