Make your way straight before me

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Presenting Psalm 5 for the weekly PsalmChallenge over at Daily Athens.
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7. But as for me, in the abundance of your lovingkindness will I come into your house;

וַאֲנִי--בְּרֹב חַסְדְּךָ, אָבוֹא בֵיתֶךָ

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I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you.
אֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה אֶל-הֵיכַל-קָדְשְׁךָ, בְּיִרְאָתֶךָ.

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9. O LORD, lead me in your righteousness

because of them that lie in wait for me;

make your way straight before my face.
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יְהוָה, נְחֵנִי בְצִדְקָתֶךָ--לְמַעַן שׁוֹרְרָי; הושר (הַיְשַׁר) לְפָנַי דַּרְכֶּךָ
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Photos are of the model of Jerusalem as many believe it looked in 66 CE, in the Second Temple Period.

The model now resides at the Israel Museum.

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Grandson Dean is on the path.

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Here is the text of Psalm 5 with a different translation:

1. For the leader; on Nehiloth1. A psalm. Of David.

2. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my utterance.

3. Listen to the sound of my cry, my King and God, for I pray to You.

4. LORD, hear my voice in the morning; in the morning I turn to2 You, and wait.

5. For You are not a God who desires wickedness; evil cannot sojourn with You;

6. wanton men cannot endure in Your sight. You hate all evildoers;

7. You destroy those who speak lies; a man of blood and deceit the LORD abhors.

8. But I, through Your abundant love, enter Your house; I bow to Your holy temple in awe of You.

9. O LORD, lead me along Your righteousness because of my foes; make Your way straight before me.

10. For there is no sincerity in their mouth; their innards - destruction; their throat is an open grave; their tongue slippery.

11 Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of their many crimes cast them out, for they defy You.

12 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; may they ever sing in jubilation as You shelter them; and let those who love Your name exult in You.

13. For You surely bless the righteous man, O LORD, encompassing him with favor as with a shield.

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