---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 17
verse_count: 15
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 17, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 17

*God the defence of the righteous. A Prayer of David.*

**1** Give me right words, O Lord; speak, and thy servant shall hear thee; attend unto my cry, and give ear unto my prayer. I come not unto thee out of feigned lips.
**2** Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
**3** Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me; thou shalt find nothing evil in me, for I am purposed my mouth shall not transgress concerning the works of men.
**4** By the words of thy lips I have kept out of the path of the destroyer.
**5** Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
**6** I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God, my speech; and incline thine ear unto me.
**7** Show thy marvellous loving-kindness, O thou that savest them which put their trust in thee, by thy right hand from those that rise up.
**8** Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings from the wicked that oppress me.
**9** My deadly enemies compass me about.
**10** They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.
**11** They hare now compassed us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bowing down to the earth;
**12** Like a lion is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
**13** Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down.
**14** Deliver my soul from the wicked by the sword; from men by thy strong hand. Yea, O Lord, from men of the world; for their portion is in their life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy good things; they are full of children, and they die and leave the rest of their inheritance to their babes.
**15** As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness.