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

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects 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 trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.

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 after 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:

He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we rejoice in him.

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

Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.

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

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

But he, being merciful, 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 oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;

And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.

They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah commanded them,

Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.

He will judge among the nations, He will fill the places with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.

The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

Princes also sat and talked against me; But thy servant did meditate on thy statutes.

Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me , When as yet there was none of them.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.