Psalms 143:1-3

¹The psalm of David. Lord, hear thou my prayer, with ears perceive thou my beseeching; in thy truth hear thou me, in thy rightwiseness.

²And enter thou not into doom with thy servant; for each man living shall not be made just or justified in thy sight.

³For the enemy pursued my soul; he made low my life in the earth. He hath set me in dark places, as the dead men of the world,