1 ¶ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my cry?

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

3 B ut thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest in the midst of the praises of Israel.

4 O ur fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5 T hey cried unto thee and were delivered: they trusted in thee and were not confounded.

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

7 A ll those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8 T urn him over to the LORD, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.

9 B ut thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou hast made me wait upon thee since I was upon my mother’s breasts.

10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11 ¶ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

12 M any bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round about.

13 T hey opened their mouth upon me as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15 M y strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16 F or dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I may count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

18 T hey part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture.

19 B ut be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20 D eliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog.

21 S ave me from the lion’s mouth and from the horns of the unicorns.

22 ¶ I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee.

23 Y e that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24 F or he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor in spirit; neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25 M y praise shall be of thee in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those that fear him.

26 T he poor shall eat and be satisfied: those that seek him shall praise the LORD; your heart shall live for ever.

27 A ll the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the LORD; and all the families of the Gentiles shall worship before thee.

28 F or the kingdom is the LORD’s, and he shall have dominion over the Gentiles.

29 A ll those that are fat upon earth shall eat and worship; all those that go down to the dust shall bow before him; and no one can keep his own soul alive.

30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 T hey shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.