Old Testament
Psalms 142
Focused passage
Psalms 142:1-11
- Verse 1. A Psalm of David, when Absalom his son persecuted him. Lord hear my prayer: with thine ears receive my petition in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.
- Verse 2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: because no man living shall be justified in thy sight.
- Verse 3. Because the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath humbled my life in the earth. He hath set me in obscure places as the dead of the world:
- Verse 4. and my spirit is in anguish upon me, within me my heart is troubled.
- Verse 5. I was mindful of old days, I have meditated in all thy works: in the facts of thy hands did I meditate.
- Verse 6. I have stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.
- Verse 7. Hear me quickly, o Lord: my spirit hath fainted. Turn not away thy face from me: and I shall be like to them that descend into the lake.
- Verse 8. Make me hear thy mercy in the morning: because I have hoped in thee. Make the way known to me, wherein I may walk: because I have lifted up my soul to thee.
- Verse 9. Deliver me from mine enemies, o Lord, to thee I have fled:
- Verse 10. teach me to do thy will, because thou art my God. Thy good spirit will conduct me into the right way:
- Verse 11. for thy name sake, o Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thine equity. Thou wilt bring forth my soul out of tribulation: