My Soul Reaches for You
A Psalm of David.
O Yahweh, hear my prayer,aGive ear to my supplications!Answer me in Your bfaithfulness, in Your crighteousness!Ps 140:6Ps 89:1, 2Ps 71:22 And ado not enter into judgment with Your slave,For bno one living is righteous in Your sight.Job 14:3; 22:41 Kin 8:46; Job 4:17; 9:2; 25:4; Ps 130:3; Eccl 7:20; Rom 3:10, 20; Gal 2:163 For the enemy has pursued my soul;He has crushed my life ato the ground;He bhas made me inhabit dark places, like those who have long been dead.Ps 44:25Ps 88:6; Lam 3:64 Therefore amy spirit was faint within me;My heart was 1bappalled within me.Or desolatePs 77:3; 142:3Lam 3:11
5 I aremember the days of old;I bmeditate on all You have done;I cmuse on the work of Your hands.Ps 77:5, 10, 11Ps 77:12Ps 105:26 I astretch out my hands to You;My bsoul reaches for You like a weary land.1Selah.Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical InterludeJob 11:13; Ps 88:9Ps 42:2; 63:1
7 aAnswer me quickly, O Yahweh, my bspirit wastes away;cDo not hide Your face from me,Or I will become like dthose who go down to the pit.Ps 69:17Ps 73:26; 84:2; Jer 8:18; Lam 1:22Ps 27:9; 69:17; 102:2Ps 28:1; 88:48 Cause me to hear Your alovingkindness bin the morning;For I trust cin You;Cause me to know the dway in which I should walk;For to You I elift up my soul.Ps 90:14Ps 46:5Ps 25:2Ps 27:11; 32:8; 86:11Ps 25:1; 86:49 aDeliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh,I have concealed myself in You.Ps 31:15; 59:1
10 aTeach me to do Your will,For You are my God;Let bYour good Spirit clead me on level 1ground.Lit landPs 25:4, 5; 119:12Neh 9:20Ps 23:311 aFor the sake of Your name, O Yahweh, brevive me.cIn Your righteousness bring my soul out of distress.Ps 25:11Ps 119:25Ps 31:1; 71:212 And in Your lovingkindness, 1acut off my enemiesAnd cause all those who assail my soul to bperish,For cI am Your slave.Or silencePs 54:5Ps 52:5Ps 116:16