A maskil of David; a prayer when he was in the cave
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📚✭✭I cried out to the LORD with my voice;
with my voice I made my
supplication to the LORD.
2 📚I poured out my complaint
before him.
I declared my trouble in
his presence.
3 📚✭When my spirit was overwhelmed
within me,
then you knew my path.
They have secretly laid a snare for
me in the road where I walk.
4 📚I looked to my right✭
and considered,
but there was no
man✭ who was willing
to know me.
Refuge failed me.
No one cared for my soul.
5 📚✭I cried out to you, O LORD.
I said, “You are my refuge
and my portion
in the land of the living.
6 📚✭Be attentive to my cry,
for I am brought very low.
Deliver me from my persecutors,
for they are stronger than I.
7 📚✭Bring my soul out of prison,
that I may praise your name.
The righteous will be all
around me,
for you will show goodness to me”.