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O LORD, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me! <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I recall the old days; I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Rescue me from my enemies, O LORD! I run to you for protection. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Teach me to do what pleases you, for you are my God. May your kind presence lead me into a level land. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">O LORD, for the sake of your reputation, revive me! Because of your justice, rescue me from trouble! <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For your name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. Used by permission. All rights reserved.</a></td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. 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