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Psalms 143:1-6

1 <<A Psalm by David.>> Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

1 LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.

2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.

2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.

3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

3 The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.

4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

4 So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.

5 I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

5 I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.

6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

6 I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.

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