³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul: he hath brought down my life to the earth. He hath made me to dwell in darkness as those that have been dead of old:

⁴And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

⁵I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.

⁶I stretched forth my hands to thee: my soul is as earth without water unto thee.

⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

⁸Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning; for in thee have I hoped. Make the way known to me, wherein I should walk: for I have lifted up my soul to thee.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:

¹⁰Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Thy good spirit shall lead me into the right land:

¹¹for thy name’s sake, O Lord, thou wilt quicken me in thy justice. Thou wilt bring my soul out of trouble:

¹²And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy my enemies. And thou wilt cut off all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Psalm 143

Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

²My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

³Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

⁴Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

⁵Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

⁶Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

⁷Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

⁸Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

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.

¹⁰Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

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:

¹²Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

¹³Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

¹⁴Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

¹⁵They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

Psalm 144

¹Praise, for David himself.

I will extol thee, O God my king: and I will bless thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

²Every day will I bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever; yea, for ever and ever.

³Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness there is no end.

⁴Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.

⁵They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness: and shall tell thy wondrous works.

⁶And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness.

⁷They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.

⁸The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.

⁹The Lord is sweet to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰Let all thy works, O lord, praise thee: and let thy saints bless thee.

¹¹They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom: and shall tell of thy power:

¹²To make thy might known to the sons of men: and the glory of the magnificence of thy kingdom.

¹³Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages: and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord is faithful in all his words: and holy in all his works.

¹⁴The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down.

¹⁵The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season.

¹⁶Thou openest thy hand, and fillest with blessing every living creature.

¹⁷The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁹He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

²⁰The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

²¹My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.

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