Psalms 143:2-8

²With your servant O enter you not into judgement, for in your sight can no one alive be justified.

³For the enemy persecutes me, crushing my life to the ground, making me live in the darkness, as those who have long been dead.

⁴My spirit is faint within me, my heart is bewildered within me.

⁵I remember the days of old, and brood over all you have done, musing on all that your hands have wrought.

⁶I spread out my hands to you: I thirst for you, like parched earth. Selah

⁷Answer me soon, Lord, because my spirit is spent. Hide not your face from me, else become I like those who go down to the pit.

⁸Let me learn of your love in the morning, for my trust is in you. Teach me the way I should go: for my heart longs for you.