Psalm 143:1-6

[1]   Hear my prayer, O LORD;  

          give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;  

          answer me in your righteousness.  

[2]   Do not enter into judgment with your servant,  

          for no one living is righteous before you.

[3]   For the enemy has pursued me,  

          crushing my life to the ground,  

          making me sit in darkness like those long dead.  

[4]   Therefore my spirit faints within me;  

          my heart within me is appalled.

[5]   I remember the days of old,  

          I think about all your deeds,  

          I meditate on the works of your hands.  

[6]   I stretch out my hands to you; 

          my soul thirsts for you like a parched land                   

                                                 Selah