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Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  dysfunctional families ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  psalms ,  purgatory ,  sin   Week 7 | Psalm 143 [142] #letuspray   A Psalm of David. 143  Hear my prayer, O  Lord ; give ear to my supplications!      In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness! 2  Enter not into judgment with thy servant;      for no man living is righteous before thee. 3  For the enemy has pursued me;      he has crushed my life to the ground;      he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. 4  Therefore my spirit faints within me;      my heart within me is appalled. 5  I remember the days of old,      I meditate on all that thou hast done;      I muse on what thy hands have wrought. 6  I stretch out my hands to thee;      my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land.  Selah 7  Make haste to answer me, O  Lord !      My spirit fails! Hide not thy face from me,      lest I be like those who go d