1 My 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 daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season,
I am not silent.
3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the heavens,
and receiveth the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered:
And they trusted in thee, and were not
confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they
shake the head, saying,
8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him,
seeing he delighted in him.
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when
I lay upon my mother's breasts.
10 I was cast upon thee from the womb, O Lord: thou art my God only, even from my mother's belly.
11 Therefore be thou not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is no helper here.
12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
all round.
13 They 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; melted in the midst of my bowels.
15 My strength is all dried up like a potsherd;
And my tongue cleaveth to my
jaws;
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of wicked enclose
me:
For they have pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dogs of
Bashan.
21 Save 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 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him;
And
fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For 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
him.
25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation:
I will pay my vows
before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied:
They shall praise the LORD that seek
him: your heart shall live forever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD:
And all the
kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the LORD'S:
And he is the governor among the nations.
29 All 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 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness,
Unto a people that shall
be born,
That he hath done this.