Skip to the text

Psalms · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

Psalm 16 (17) Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

Leer en español
About DRB
  • Catholic
  • OT: Latin Vulgate
  • NT: Latin Vulgate
  • Catholic (73 books)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1899
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 17 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

Psalm 16 in DRB = Psalm 17 in WEB.

DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
17:1 A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
2 Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.
17:2 Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.
17:3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
4 That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.
17:4 As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
5 Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.
17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
6 I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.
17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
7 Shew forth thy wonderful mercies; thou who savest them that trust in thee.
17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
8 From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 From the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul:
17:9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
10 They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.
17:10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
11 They have cast me forth and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
12 They have taken me, as a lion prepared for the prey; and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him; deliver my soul from the wicked one: thy sword
17:13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
14 From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
17:14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
15 But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.
17:15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in DRB.

  1. 1 Psalm 142:6; Psalm 61:1; Psalm 145:18; Matthew 15:8; Daniel 9:18–19
  2. 2 Psalm 37:6; 2 Thessalonians 1:6–9; Ezekiel 18:25; Ezekiel 18:29; Jude 24
  3. 3 Job 23:10; Psalm 26:2; Acts 11:23; Psalm 39:1; Malachi 3:2
  4. 4 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Corinthians 3:3; Psalm 119:9–11; Matthew 4:10; Matthew 4:7
  5. 5 Psalm 44:18; Psalm 119:133; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 121:3; Psalm 121:7
  6. 6 Psalm 116:2; Psalm 86:7; Psalm 88:2; Psalm 66:19–20; Psalm 55:16
  7. 7 Psalm 60:5; Psalm 5:11–12; Psalm 31:21; Psalm 20:6; Isaiah 41:10
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalm 91:4; Psalm 91:1; Proverbs 7:2; Zechariah 2:8
  9. 9 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 35:7; Psalm 7:5; Psalm 31:20; Psalm 35:12
  10. 10 1 Samuel 2:3; Psalm 123:4; Psalm 31:18; Revelation 13:5–6; Matthew 13:15
  11. 11 Proverbs 6:13–14; Psalm 37:14; Psalm 10:8–10; 1 Samuel 26:2–3; 1 Samuel 23:26
  12. 12 Psalm 7:2; Psalm 10:9; 1 Peter 5:8; 2 Timothy 4:17; Psalm 22:13
  13. 13 Psalm 3:7; Psalm 44:26; Psalm 7:6; Psalm 44:23; Psalm 7:11–13
  14. 14 Job 22:18; John 17:14; John 8:23; Psalm 49:17–19; Luke 16:8
  15. 15 2 Corinthians 3:18; Matthew 5:6; Psalm 16:11; Psalm 11:7; 1 John 3:2–3

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 17.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XVI)

    Our King in this Psalm speaks in the character of the human nature He assumed, of whom the royal title at the time of His passion was eminently set forth. 2. Now He saith as follows; "Preserve me, O Lord, for in Thee have I hoped" (ver.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 17:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XI, Chapters 14–18)

    The same form of speech is found in the psalm: "I have called upon Thee, for Thou hast heard me, O God," where we should expect it to be said, Thou hast heard me, O God, for I have called upon Thee.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 17:8 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture VI)

    Some have thought that God is fire; others that He is, as it were, a man with wings, because of a true text ill understood, Thou shalt hide me under the shadow of Thy wings.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

  4. Quotes verse 17:8 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVII, Chapter 4)

    … supposed from such language that man in the form of this flesh is made in the image of God, wings also are ascribed to Him, which man has not at all; and it is said to God, "Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings," that men may understand that such things are said of that ineffable nature not in …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  5. Quotes verse 17:8 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon VIII)

    Whence it is said in the Psalms, "Keep me under the shadow of Thy wings." But as to others who in the day of judgment shall repent, but all too late, and who shall mourn, yet unavailingly, it hath been foretold by Wisdom what they shall then say as they repent and groan for anguish of spirit, "What hath pride …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)