Psalm

142 With my voice, to Jehovah I proceeded to call for aid;+

With my voice, to Jehovah I began to cry for favor.+

 2 Before him I kept pouring out my concern;+

Before him I continued to tell about my own distress,+

 3 When my spirit+ fainted away within me.

Then you yourself knew my roadway.+

In the path in which I walk+

They have hidden a trap for me.+

 4 Look to the right hand and see

That there is no one giving any recognition to me.+

My place for flight has perished from me;+

There is no one inquiring for my soul.+

 5 I called to you, O Jehovah, for aid.+

I said: “You are my refuge,+

My share+ in the land of the living ones.”+

 6 Do pay attention to my entreating cry,+

For I have become very much impoverished.+

Deliver me from my persecutors,+

For they are stronger than I am.+

 7 Do bring my soul out of the very dungeon+

To laud your name.+

Around me let the righteous ones gather,+

Because you deal appropriately with me.+