< Psalms 142 >
1 AN INSTRUCTION OF DAVID. A PRAYER WHEN HE IS IN THE CAVE. My voice [is] to YHWH, I cry, My voice [is] to YHWH, I beg [for] grace.
Intellectus David, Cum esset in spelunca, oratio. Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi: voce mea ad Dominum deprecatus sum:
2 I pour forth my meditation before Him, I declare my distress before Him.
Effundo in conspectu eius orationem meam, et tribulationem meam ante ipsum pronuncio.
3 When my spirit has been feeble in me, Then You have known my path; In the way [in] which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.
In deficiendo ex me spiritum meum, et tu cognovisti semitas meas. In via hac, qua ambulabam, absconderunt laqueum mihi.
4 Looking on the right hand—and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Refuge has perished from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.
Considerabam ad dexteram, et videbam: et non erat qui cognosceret me. Periit fuga a me, et non est qui requirat animam meam.
5 I have cried to you, O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.”
Clamavi ad te Domine, dixi: Tu es spes mea, portio mea in terra viventium.
6 Attend to my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.
Intende ad deprecationem meam: quia humiliatus sum nimis. Libera me a persequentibus me: quia confortati sunt super me.
7 Bring forth my soul from prison to confess Your Name, The righteous surround me about, When You confer benefits on me!
Educ de custodia animam meam ad confitendum nomini tuo: me expectant iusti, donec retribuas mihi.