142 I cry with my voice unto Jehovah;
With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.
² I pour out my complaint before him;
I show before him my trouble.
³ When my spirit ^[a]was overwhelmed within me,
Thou knewest my path.
In the way wherein I walk
Have they hidden a snare for me.
⁴ Look on my right hand, and see;
For there is no man that knoweth me:
Refuge hath failed me;
No man careth for my soul.
⁵ I cried unto thee, O Jehovah;
I said, Thou art my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.
⁶ Attend unto my cry;
For I am brought very low:
Deliver me from my persecutors;
For they are stronger than I.
⁷ Bring my soul out of prison,
That I may give thanks unto thy name:
The righteous shall ^[b]compass me about;
For thou wilt deal bountifully with me.

143 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications:
In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
² And enter not into judgment with thy servant;
For in thy sight no man living is righteous.
³ For the enemy hath persecuted my soul;
He hath smitten my life down to the ground:
He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
⁴ Therefore ^[c]is my spirit overwhelmed within me;
My heart within me is desolate.
⁵ I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all thy doings;
I muse on the work of thy hands.
⁶ I spread forth my hands unto thee:
My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah
⁷ Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth:
Hide not thy face from me,
Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
⁸ Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning;
For in thee do I trust:
Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk;
For I lift up my soul unto thee.
⁹ Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies:
^[d]I flee unto thee to hide me.
¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will;
For thou art my God:
^[e]Thy Spirit is good;
Lead me in ^[f]the land of uprightness.
¹¹ Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name’s sake:
In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
¹² And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies,
And destroy all them that afflict my soul;
For I am thy servant.

144 Blessed be Jehovah my rock,
Who teacheth my hands to war,
And my fingers to fight:
² My lovingkindness, and my fortress,
My high tower, and my deliverer;
My shield, and he in whom I take refuge;
Who subdueth my people under me.
³ Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him?
Or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?
⁴ Man is like to ^[g]vanity:
His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
⁵ Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down:
Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
⁶ Cast forth lightning, and scatter them;
Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
⁷ Stretch forth thy hand from above;
Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens;
⁸ Whose mouth speaketh deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
⁹ I will sing a new song unto thee, O God:
Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
¹⁰ Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings;
Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens,
Whose mouth speaketh deceit,
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.