1 M y God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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

3 B ut thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest 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 they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

8 H e trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

9 B ut thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when 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 B e not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

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

13 T hey gaped upon me with their mouths, 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 cleaveth 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 tell 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 darling from the power of the dog.

21 S ave me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I 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 hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath 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 them that fear him.

26 T he meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27 A ll the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28 F or the kingdom is the Lord 's: and he is the governor among the nations.

29 A ll they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

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 hath done this.