142: 1 Prayer for Help in Trouble. Maskil of David, when he was in the cave; a Prayer. I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.
142: 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.
142: 3 When my spirit ⁷⁹³was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.
⁷⁹³Or, fainted

142: 4 ⁷⁹⁴Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
⁷⁹⁴So Massoretic. 11QPs^a Sept., Vg. (Aram.) read  I look on my right hand and I see;

142: 5 I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
142: 6 Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
142: 7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks unto thy name: The righteous shall ⁷⁹⁵compass me about; For thou wilt deal bountifully with me.
⁷⁹⁵Or, crown themselves because of me;