Psalms:141:1: LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Psalms:141:2: Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms:141:3: Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Psalms:141:4: Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Psalms:141:5: Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Psalms:141:6: When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
Psalms:141:7: Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
Psalms:141:8: But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Psalms:141:9: Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
Psalms:141:10: Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
Chapter 142
Psalms:142:1: I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalms:142:2: I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
Psalms:142:3: When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Psalms:142:4: I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Psalms:142:5: I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Psalms:142:6: Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Psalms:142:7: Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Chapter 143
Psalms:143:1: Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Psalms:143:2: And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Psalms:143:3: For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms:143:4: Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Psalms:143:5: I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Psalms:143:6: I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Psalms:143:7: Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
