Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 35 connects to 8 cross-references. A lament of David appealing to God to take up his cause as warrior and judge against those who pursue him without cause. He describes their malicious slander and false accusations from people he had helped in their illness. The …
Other Translations
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
As <FI>if<Fi> a friend, as <FI>if<Fi> my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.
My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.
Cross References
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved …
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people …
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! …