“Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 142 contains 7 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.