Psalms 143
143
PSALM 143
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Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
A Psalm of David.
1Lord, hear my pray'r, attend my suits;
and in thy faithfulness
Give thou an answer unto me,
and in thy righteousness.
2Thy servant also bring thou not
in judgment to be try'd:
Because no living man can be
in thy sight justify'd.
3For th' en'my hath pursu'd my soul,
my life to ground down tread:
In darkness he hath made me dwell,
as who have long been dead.
4My sp'rit is therefore overwhelm'd
in me perplexedly;
Within me is my very heart
amazed wondrously.
5I call to mind the days of old,
to meditate I use
On all thy works; upon the deeds
I of thy hands do muse.
6My hands to thee I stretch; my soul
thirsts, as dry land, for thee.
7Haste, Lord, to hear, my spirit fails:
hide not thy face from me;
Lest like to them I do become
that go down to the dust.
8At morn let me thy kindness hear;
for in thee do I trust.
Teach me the way that I should walk:
I lift my soul to thee.
9Lord, free me from my foes; I flee
to thee to cover me.
10Because thou art my God, to do
thy will do me instruct:
Thy Sp'rit is good, me to the land
of uprightness conduct.
11Revive and quicken me, O Lord,
ev'n for thine own name's sake;
And do thou, for thy righteousness,
my soul from trouble take.
12And of thy mercy slay my foes;
let all destroyed be
That do afflict my soul: for I
a servant am to thee.
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Psalms 143
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PSALM 143.
1A psalm of David against Goliath.
Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
2My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.
10Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:
12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
14their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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