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Psalm 143:3-5
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 143:3-5
New Catholic Bible
3 [a]An enemy has stalked me unrelentingly
and crushed me into the ground;
he has left me to live in darkness[b]
like those long dead.
4 My spirit is faint within me,
and my heart[c] has succumbed to fear.
5 I remember the days of old,
reflecting on all your actions
and meditating on the works of your hands.[d]
Footnotes
- Psalm 143:3 The psalmist sketches the distress he suffers and is encouraged by the memory of God’s past acts of deliverance.
- Psalm 143:3 The same images are found in Ps 7:6; Lam 3:6; Mic 7:8. Darkness: see note on Ps 27:1.
- Psalm 143:4 Heart: see note on Ps 4:8.
- Psalm 143:5 See Pss 42:5; 77:6, 12f.
