Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,

My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.