Psalms 143
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
1Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.
2Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
2My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.
3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
3Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.
5I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
5Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.
6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
6Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
7Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:
8Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
8Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
9Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
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.
10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
10Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:
11Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
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:
12In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, for I am your servant.
12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
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13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
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14Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.
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15They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.
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