“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 143 contains 12 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.