1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from mine health, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry by day, but thou hearest not: and by night, but have no audience.
3But thou art holy, and dost inhabit the praises of Israel.
4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
5They called upon thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
6But I am a worm, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.
7All they that see me, have me in derision: they make a mow and nod the head, saying,
8He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he loveth him.
9But thou didst draw me out of the womb: thou gavest me hope, even at my mother’s breasts.
10I was cast upon thee, even from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
11Be not far from me, because trouble is near: for there is none to help me.
12Many young bulls have compassed me: mighty bulls of Bashan have closed me about.
13They gape upon me with their mouths, as a ramping and roaring lion.
14I am like water poured out, and all my bones are out of joint: mine heart is like wax: it is molten in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16For dogs have compassed me, and the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced mine hands and my feet.
17I may tell all my bones, yet they behold, and look upon me.
18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
19But be not thou far off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to help me.
20Deliver my soul from the sword: my desolate soul from the power of the dog.
21Save me from the lion’s mouth, and answer me in saving me from the horns of the unicorns.
22I will declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,
23Praise the Lord, ye that fear him: magnify ye him, all the seed of Jacob, and fear ye him all the seed of Israel.
24For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard.
25My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation: my vows will I perform before them that fear him.
26The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shall praise him: your heart shall live forever.
27All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28For the kingdom is the Lord’s, and he ruleth among the nations.
29All they that be fat in the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down into the dust, shall bow before him, even he that cannot quicken his own soul.
30Their seed shall serve him: it shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation.
31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, because he hath done it.