Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.

For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me;

And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make supplication:

I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:

Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.

They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;

They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;

Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

He shall judge among the nations; he shall fill all places with dead bodies; he shall smite through the head over a great country.

The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;

Princes also did sit and talk together against me: thy servant doth meditate in thy statutes.

Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all my members were written; during many days were they fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.