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Psalm 142:3

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When I'm totally discouraged, you know the direction I should take. But whichever way I go, people set traps for me.

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Yet he always knows where I'm going. When he has proved me, I will come out shining like gold.

For the Lord watches over those who follow the right way, but the way of the wicked leads to death.

Lord, please hear my prayer, my cry for help!

I'm like grass that's dried up, withered away—I even forget to eat!

Proud people have hidden a trap for me—they have strung out a net on the path, they have set snares to catch me. Selah.

Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.

I sense myself fading away inside; I am overwhelmed by a sense of desolation.

You have observed my thoughts, you have visited me at night, you have examined me—and you have found nothing wrong. I promised myself I wouldn't say anything I shouldn't.

I feel like I'm being poured out like water. I'm falling apart as if all my bones have become loose. My mind feels like it's wax melting inside me.

Help me escape from the hidden net that they set to trap me, for you are the one who protects me.

They gather together in their hiding places to keep watch on me, hoping to kill me.

From this distant place, far from home, I cry out to you as my courage fails. Take me to a rock high above me where I will be safe,

Ordinary people are mere breaths, while leaders are just fakes. Put them all together and weigh them on scales and they wouldn't weigh more than air!

I thought about God, groaning loudly; I meditated on him, but I was discouraged. Selah.

May cries of agony be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring invaders to attack them, because they dug a pit to capture me and hid traps to catch me as I walk along.

Get up and cry out as the night begins. Pour out your sad thoughts like water before the Lord. Hold up your hands to him in prayer for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at every street corner.

Then the Pharisees left and met together to plot how they could trap him by what he said.




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