Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 142
1I cry with my voice unto the LORD; with my voice unto the LORD do I make supplication. 2I pour out my complaint before him; I shew before him my trouble. 3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk have they hidden a snare for me. 4Look on my right hand, and see; for there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul. 5I cried unto thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. 6Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.