A prayer of David
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📚✭✭Bow down your ear,O LORD, hear me;
for I am poor and needy.
2 📚✭Preserve my soul,
for I am godly.
O my God, save your servant
who trusts in you.
3 📚✭Be merciful to me, O Lord,
for I cry out to you daily.
4 📚✭Cause the soul of your servant
to rejoice, for to you, O Lord,
I lift up my soul.
5 📚✭For you, Lord, are good,
and ready to forgive,
and abundant in mercy
to all those who
call on you.
6 📚✭Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer,
and be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
7 📚In the day of my trouble
I will call on you,
for you will answer me.
8 📚✭Among the gods there is
no one like you,
O Lord,
nor are there any works
like yours.
9 📚All nations whom
you have made will come
and worship before you,
O Lord, and will glorify your name.
10 📚For you are great
and do wonderful things.
You alone are God.
11 📚✭Teach✭ me your way, O LORD.
I will walk in your truth.
Unite my heart to fear✭ your name.
12 📚✭I will praise you,
O Lord my God, with all my heart,
and I will glorify your name
forevermore.
13 📚For great is your mercy
toward me,
and you have delivered my soul
from the depths of hell✭.
14 📚✭O God, the proud have risen up
against me,
and a mob of violent men have
sought my life,
and have not set you
before them.
15 📚But you, O Lord, are a
God full of compassion,
and gracious,
slow to get angry, and abundant
in mercy and truth.
16 📚Oh, turn to me, and have mercy
on me.
Give your strength to your servant,
and save the son of your maid
servant.
17 📚✭Show me a sign for good,
so that those who hate me
may see it and be ashamed;
because you, LORD,
have helped me,
and comforted me.