He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

Who can open the doors of its mouth? Its teeth all around are fearsome.

The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord helped me.

Come near me and redeem me! Because of my enemies, rescue me!

In my time of trouble I cry out to you, for you will answer me.

They witnessed the acts of the Lord, his amazing feats on the deep water.

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

Let the family of Aaron say, “Yes, his loyal love endures!”

I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.

In the middle of the night I arise to thank you for your just regulations.

Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out

in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”