How long must I take counsel in my soul, [and] sorrow in my heart [all the] day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

"I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore [an oath] to David my servant:

Where [are] your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, [that] you swore to David by your faithfulness?

Therefore I swore in my anger, 'They shall surely not enter into my rest.'"

All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear [oaths] against me.

that he made with Abraham, and by his oath [swore] to Isaac.

How he swore to Yahweh, he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

Yahweh swore [in] truth to David; he will not turn back from it. "One from the fruit of your {body} I will set on your throne.