“I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 35 contains 28 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.