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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 143 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/143.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/143-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Psalm 143</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/142.htm" title="Psalm 142">◄</a> Psalm 143 <a href="../psalms/144.htm" title="Psalm 144">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/143-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A PSALM OF DAVID. O YHWH, hear my prayer, "" Give ear to my supplications, "" Answer me in Your faithfulness—in Your righteousness.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, "" For no one living is justified before You.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For an enemy has pursued my soul, "" He has bruised my life to the earth, "" He has caused me to dwell in dark places, "" As the dead of old.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And my spirit has become feeble in me, "" My heart has become desolate within me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have remembered days of old, "" I have meditated on all Your acts, "" I muse on the work of Your hand.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I have spread forth my hands to You, "" My soul [is] as a weary land for You. Selah.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hurry, answer me, O YHWH, "" My spirit has been consumed, "" Do not hide Your face from me, "" Or I have been compared with those going down [to] the pit.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Cause me to hear Your kindness in the morning, "" For I have trusted in You, "" Cause me to know the way that I go, "" For I have lifted up my soul to You.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Deliver me from my enemies, O YHWH, "" Near You I am covered.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Teach me to do Your good pleasure, "" For You [are] my God—Your Spirit [is] good, "" Lead me into a land of uprightness.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You quicken me for Your Name’s sake, O YHWH, "" In Your righteousness, You bring out my soul from distress,<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/143-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And in Your kindness cut off my enemies, "" And have destroyed all the adversaries of my soul, "" For I [am] Your servant!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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