My Soul Reaches for You

¹O Yahweh, hear my prayer,

Give ear to my supplications!

Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

²And do not enter into judgment with Your slave,

For no one living is righteous in Your sight.

³For the enemy has pursued my soul;

He has crushed my life to the ground;

He has made me inhabit dark places, like those who have long been dead.

⁴Therefore my spirit was faint within me;

My heart was appalled within me.

⁵¶I remember the days of old;

I meditate on all You have done;

I muse on the work of Your hands.

⁶I stretch out my hands to You;

My soul reaches for You like a weary land. Selah.

⁷¶Answer me quickly, O Yahweh, my spirit wastes away;

Do not hide Your face from me,

Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

⁸Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;

For I trust in You;

Cause me to know the way in which I should walk;

For to You I lift up my soul.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh,

I have concealed myself in You.

¹⁰¶Teach me to do Your will,

For You are my God;

Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Yahweh, revive me.

In Your righteousness bring my soul out of distress.

¹²And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies[#143:12 Or silence]

And cause all those who assail my soul to perish,

For I am Your slave.