UST PSA Chapter 86

A prayer of David.

Yahweh, I am poor and helpless,

so please do what I ask.

2 I am loyal to you, so please protect me.

I worship you as my God and I trust you,

so please save me.

3 I have been crying out to you continually, Lord,

so please be kind to me.

4 I am asking you to help me, Lord, as someone who worships you,

so please make me happy by doing that.

5 Do this, Lord, because you are good and you forgive people’s sins.

You very faithfully love everyone who prays to you.

6 Yahweh, I am pleading with you in prayer to help me;

please do what I ask.

7 Whenever I am in trouble, I call out to you,

because I know that you will help me.

8 Lord, among all the gods that the nations worship,

there is none like you;

none of them has done the great things that you have done.

9 Lord, the nations that you have made

will all come and bow down before you,

and they will praise you.

10 They will do this because you are great and you do amazing things;

you are the only true God.

11 Yahweh, please teach me how you want me to live

so that I will act properly, as you wish.

Give me a sincere desire to honor you.

12 Lord my God, I will thank you wholeheartedly,

and I will praise you forever.

13 I will do that because you have been so faithfully kind to me;

you have kept me from going way down into the place where dead people are.

14 God, proud people are attacking me.

Yes, a group of cruel people is trying to kill me;

those people do not respect you.

15 But you, Lord, are a God who is merciful and kind.

You do not quickly become angry,

and you are so faithfully kind and true to us.

16 Consider my situation and be kind to me;

make me, your servant, strong.

Help me as if I had been born in your household.

17 Do something to show that you are helping me

so that my enemies will see it, and it will embarrass them.

I believe that you, Yahweh, will help me

and comfort me.