I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

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

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.

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

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

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

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.

The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. TET

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.