1 M y God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.

3 B ut You are holy, O You Who dwell in the praises of Israel.

4 O ur fathers trusted in You; they trusted (leaned on, relied on You, and were confident) and You delivered them.

5 T hey cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, and confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed or confounded or disappointed.

6 B ut I am a worm, and no man; I am the scorn of men, and despised by the people.

7 A ll who see me laugh at me and mock me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8 H e trusted and rolled himself on the Lord, that He would deliver him. Let Him deliver him, seeing that He delights in him!

9 Y et You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope and trust when I was on my mother’s breasts.

10 I was cast upon You from my very birth; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

11 B e not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help.

12 M any bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have hedged me in.

13 A gainst me they opened their mouths wide, like a ravening and roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is softened and melted down within me.

15 M y strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death.

16 F or dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I can count all my bones; gaze at me.

18 T hey part my clothing among them and cast lots for my raiment (a long, shirtlike garment, a seamless undertunic). )

19 B ut be not far from me, O Lord; O my Help, hasten to aid me!

20 D eliver my life from the sword, my dear life from the power of the dog.

21 S ave me from the lion’s mouth; for You have answered me from the horns of the wild oxen.

22 I will declare Your name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise You.

23 Y ou who fear (revere and worship) the Lord, praise Him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify Him. Fear (revere and worship) Him, all you offspring of Israel.

24 F or He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

25 M y praise shall be of You in the great congregation. I will pay to Him my vows before them who fear (revere and worship) Him.

26 T he poor and afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord—they who seek for, inquire of and for Him, and require Him. May your hearts be quickened now and forever!

27 A ll the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall bow down and worship before You,

28 F or the kingship and the kingdom are the Lord’s, and He is the ruler over the nations.

29 A ll the mighty ones upon earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive.

30 P osterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation.

31 T hey shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born—that He has done it!