Break [the] arm of [the] wicked, and [as for the] evil [man]-- seek out his wickedness [until] you find none.

You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.

Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you.

Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.

I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock [that is] higher than I.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

I have found David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him,

And he {let them find compassion} before all their captors.

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them.

[The] ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief.

Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me.

until I find a place for Yahweh, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar.

And [so] my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within} me is desolate.