As for me, I was like a deaf man and heard not; as one that were dumb, not opening his mouth.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

{To the chanter, upon the domme stock dove, which flyeth far off: Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath} Be merciful unto me, O God, for men will tread me down: they are daily fighting and troubling me.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

Though ye have lain among the sheep-folds, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the beasts, and forget not the congregation of the poor forever.

{Tav} Let my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding, according unto thy word.