Psalms 35:14

I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. ¹  I bowed down ²  in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ³ 

I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother.

I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

I was sad, as though they were my friends or family, as if I were grieving for my own mother.

My prayers were like lead in my gut, like I'd lost my best friend, my brother. I paced, distraught as a motherless child, hunched and heavyhearted.

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.

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.

I paced about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.

I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. ¹  I bowed down ²  in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”

² sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.

³ tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”