Opening the chapter…
God, hear me while I pray to you! Because you are righteous and because you faithfully do what you have promised, listen to what I am pleading for you to do for me.
I am one who worships you; do not judge me, because you do not consider anyone to be completely innocent.
My enemies have pursued me; they have completely defeated me. It is as though they have put me in a dark prison where I have nothing good to hope for.
So I am very discouraged in my inner being; I am very dismayed.
I remember what has happened previously; I meditate on all the things that you have done; I consider all the great deeds that you have performed.
I lift up my hands to you while I pray; I want very much to be with you, as much as I would thirst for water in a vast wilderness.
God, I am very discouraged, 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.
Every morning cause me to remember that you faithfully love me because I trust in you. I pray to you; show me the things that I should do.
God, I have gone to you for you to protect me, so rescue me from my enemies.
You are my God; teach me to do what you want me to do. I want your good Spirit to show me the right things to do.
God, restore me when I am close to dying as you promised to do because you are righteous!
I am one who serves you; so because you faithfully love me as you promised to do, kill my enemies and get rid of all those who oppress me.
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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