Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

For they didn't get 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 face, because you were favorable to them.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

They soon forgot his works. They didn't wait for his counsel,

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn't believe his word,

but murmured in their tents, and didn't listen to Yahweh's voice.

They didn't destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,

because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.