Psalm 35:14 {34:14}
Good News Translation
as I would pray for a friend or a brother. I went around bent over in mourning, as one who mourns for his mother.

New Revised Standard Version
as though I grieved for a friend or a brother; I went about as one who laments for a mother, bowed down and in mourning.

Contemporary English Version
as I would for a friend or a relative. I was in sorrow and mourned, as I would for my mother.

New American Bible
I went about in grief as for my brother, bent in mourning as for my mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

I behaved [heb.

2 Samuel 1:11,12,17 Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him. . . .

Luke 19:41,42 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

as one.

Genesis 24:67 Who brought her into the tent of Sara his mother, and took her to wife: and he loved her so much, that it moderated the sorrow which was occasioned by his mother's death.

Context
Contend with My Opponents
13But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom. 14As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.15But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.…
Cross References
Job 30:25
I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

Psalm 38:6
I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Psalm 141:5
The just man shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Ecclesiastes 12:3
When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:

Psalm 35:13
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