Psalm 35:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.

American Standard Version (1901)

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

Common English Bible

I would wander around like I was grieving a friend or a brother. I was weighed down, sad, like I was a mother in mourning.

Psalm 35:14 Cross References

Genesis 24:67

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Psalm 38:6

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning.

Acts 16:28

But Paul shouted in a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”