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:

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.

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!

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

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.

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.