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, and am not silent. 3   But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest 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: 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 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 none to help. 12   Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me 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; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15   My 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   For 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   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 dog. 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. 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 for ever. 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.