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class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">answer me in your righteousness.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Do not enter into judgment with your servant,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for no one living is righteous before you.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For the enemy has pursued me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">crushing my life to the ground,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">making me sit in darkness like those long dead.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Therefore my spirit faints within me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my heart within me is appalled.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>I remember the days of old,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I think about all your deeds,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I meditate on the works of your hands.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I stretch out my hands to you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Answer me quickly, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my spirit fails.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Do not hide your face from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for in you I put my trust.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Teach me the way I should go,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for to you I lift up my soul.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Save me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, from my enemies;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I have fled to you for refuge.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-18373a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Teach me to do your will,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for you are my God.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Let your good spirit lead me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">on a level path.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For your name’s sake, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, preserve my life.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>In your steadfast love cut off my enemies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and destroy all my adversaries,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for I am your servant.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 143:9">Psalm 143:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>One Heb Ms Gk: MT <i>to you I have hidden</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version 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