Psalms 142

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [Psalm Of David When he was in the cave Prayer] To Yahweh I cry out with my plea. To Yahweh Icry out with entreaty.	1 I have cried to the, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
2 I pour out my worry in his presence, in his presence I unfold my troubles.	2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
3 However faint my spirit; you are watching over my path. On the road I have to travel they havehidden a trap for me.	3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
4 Look on my right and see -- there is no one who recognises me. Al refuge is denied me, no onecares whether I live or die.	4 Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.
5 I cry out to you, Yahweh, I affirm, 'You are my refuge, my share in the land of the living!'	5 The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
6 Listen to my cal ing, for I am miserably weak. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are toostrong for me.	6 their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:
7 Lead me out of prison that I may praise your name. The upright gather round me because of yourgenerosity to me.	7 as when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.
	8 But o to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
	9 Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
	10 The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.