He sent from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts.

For I have heard the slander of many. Fear [was] on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

We took sweet counsel together. We walked in the house of God with the throng.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.

By thee I have been held up from the womb. Thou are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee.

When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me,

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

Thou prepared [place] before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.

Thou answered them, O LORD our God. Thou were a God who forgave them, though thou took vengeance on their doings.

And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labor of the peoples in possession,

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I exercise myself in grand matters, or in things too wonderful for me.

[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, I cannot attain to it.