🎵WEB · Psalms 143:4

What does Psalms 143:4 mean?

"Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate."

— Psalms 143:4 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

2

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

3

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

4

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

5

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

6

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

7

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

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