UST PSA Chapter 143

143 

This is a psalm of David.

Yahweh, please listen to me as I pray to you, pleading for you to help me!

Because you are righteous

and because you faithfully do what you have promised,

please do what I am asking you to do for me!

2 Please do not judge me, your servant,

because you know that there is no one alive who is completely innocent.

3 Please help me because my enemies have pursued me;

they have completely defeated me.

It is as though they have already put me in a grave

like people who are dead for eternity.

4 So I am very discouraged;

I feel very dismayed.

5 I remember what has happened previously;

I think about all the things that you have done;

I consider the great deeds that you have performed.

6 I lift up my hands to you as I pray;

I need you, just as much as a very dry land needs water. Selah

7 Yahweh, I am absolutely despairing,

so please answer me right now!

Do not keep away from me

because if you do that, I will soon be among those who descend to where the dead people are.

8 Every morning cause me to remember that you faithfully love me

because I trust in you.

show me the things that I should do

because I depend on you for my life.

9 Yahweh, please save me from my enemies;

I rely on you to protect me.

10 You are the God to whom I belong,

so teach me to do what pleases you.

I want your good Spirit to show me the best way to live.

11 Yahweh, please keep me alive because of who you are;

because you are righteous, please rescue me from the people who are oppressing me!

12 I am one who serves you;

so because you faithfully love me as you promised to do,

please kill all of my enemies who want to kill me.