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Psalm 35:14

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35:14I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother.26

I bowed down27 in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.28

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Footnotes

  1. 26 Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”
  2. 27 I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.
  3. 28 Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;

as one who laments his mother,

I bowed down in mourning.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I went about mourning

as though for my friend or brother.

I bowed my head in grief

as though weeping for my mother.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I went about mourning as if for my friend or brother;

I was bowed down with grief,

like one mourning for a mother.

NLTNew Living Translation

I was sad, as though they were my friends or family,

as if I were grieving for my own mother.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I behaved as though he were a friend or as a brother to me.

As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning.

KJV 1900King James Version

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother:

I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.