A psalm of David
143
📚✭Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications.
In your faithfulness
and in your
righteousness, answer me.
2 📚✭And do not enter into judgment
with your servant,
for in your sight no man
living is righteous.
3 📚For the enemy has persecuted
my soul.
He has crushed my life to
the ground.
He has made me dwell in darkness,
like those who have long been
dead.
4 📚Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed
within me.
My heart within me is desolate.
5 📚✭I remember the days of old.
I meditate on all your works.
I ponder on the work of your
hands.
6 📚✭I stretch out my hands to you.
My soul thirsts for you
like a thirsty land. Selah
7 📚Answer me quickly, O LORD.
My spirit wastes away.
Do not hide your face from me,
so that I do not become like those
who go down into the pit.
8 📚Cause me to hear your loving
kindness in the morning✭,
for in you I trust✭.
Cause me to know✭ the way in
which I should walk,
for I lift up my soul to you.
9 📚✭Deliver me, O LORD, from
my enemies;
I flee to you to hide me.
10 📚✭Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
Your Spirit is good;
lead me in the land of
uprightness.
11 📚✭Revive me, O LORD,
for your name’s sake.
For the sake of your righteousness
bring my soul out of trouble.
12 📚✭And in your mercy cut off
my enemies,
and destroy all those who afflict
my soul; for I am
your servant.