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

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

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

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

[To the Chief Musician for the Sons of Korah, a maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

How you did drive out the nations with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.

Kings' daughters were among your honorable women: at your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

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

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

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

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

O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:

You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, by which you did confirm your inheritance, when it was weary.

Kings of armies did flee in haste: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

You did divide the sea by your strength: you broke the heads of the serpents in the waters.

You did break open the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them food to the full.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

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

You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.

Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

[A maschil of David. A prayer when he was in the cave.] I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.