I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

And I said, Who will give to me wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

Lo, I would wander far off; I would lodge in the desert. Selah.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the silent dove, those far off. Of David, a secret treasure, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up; fighting daily, he presses me down.

He shall send from Heaven, and save me from the scorn of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons.

But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

I would soon have humbled their enemies, and would have turned My hand against their foes.

The haters of Jehovah would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever.

And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you.

And He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them.

Oh that men would praise Jehovah for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the sons of man!

CHETH: You are my portion, O Jehovah; I have said that I would keep Your Words.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

then the waters would have flowed over us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.