Psalm 142:4
Psalms 142 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Psalm 142:4 in the NABRE onlineI looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was none that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is none that seeketh my soul.
Reflection
The psalmist looked for someone and found no one. Scripture records the looking, which means God was there even when the psalmist could not find anyone else. The next verse turns that emptiness into a prayer.