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title: Psalm 142
slug: kjv/psalm-142
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:19:52.672Z
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**1 **\{Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.} I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

**2 **I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

**3 **When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

**4 **I looked on *my* right hand, and beheld, but *there was* no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

**5 **I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou *art* my refuge *and* my portion in the land of the living.

**6 **Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

**7 **Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.