I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

I said, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

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

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;