A pit, he cut out, and digged it, and then fell into the ditch he had made:

When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.

Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,

For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of a people, - didst appoint me to be the head of nations, A people I had not known, served me:

Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale.

All the great ones of the earth, shall eat and bow down, Before him shall kneel, all that go down to the dust, Even he who had not kept alive, his own soul!

When, my own father and mother, had forsaken me, Then, Yahweh, took me up!

But, I, had said in mine alarm, I am cut off from before thine eyes, - But, indeed, thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, when I cried for help unto thee.

Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:

All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;

Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;

If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,

There have they been in great dread where no dread was, Because, God, hath scattered the bones of thy besieger, - Thou hast put him to shame, Because, God, had, rejected, them.

If, iniquity, I had cared for in my heart, My Lord, had not heard me!

More than the hairs of my head, Are they who hate me without cause, - Firmer than my bones, Are they who are my foes for false cause, - What I had not plundered, then, had I to restore.

If I had thought, I will relate it thus, Lo! the circle of thy sons, had I betrayed.

But my heart had grown embittered, And, in my reins, had I received wounds;

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

And forgat His doings, And his wonders which he had showed them:

Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened;

And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them:

So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them: -

They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth,

So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men;

Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!

If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence - my soul!

He sent Moses his servant, Aaron, whom he had chosen.

Egypt rejoiced when they went out, For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt:

Then would he have bidden to destroy them, - had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying.

They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them;

But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;

So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them;

Because they had rebelled against the sayings of GOD, - and, the counsel of the Most High, they had spurned;

This, have I had, because, thy precepts, have I observed.

A little more, and they had consumed me in the earth, but, I, forsake not thy precepts.

Had not thy law been my dear delight, then, had I perished in mine affliction.

Long, hath my soul had her dwelling with him that hateth peace:

If it had not been, Yahweh, who was on our side, oh might Israel say:

Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;

Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;

Then, had gone over our soul the waters so proud!

When my spirit fainted concerning myself, then, thou, didst take note of my path, - In the course which I was about to take, they had hidden a snare for me.