My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
    Why are you so far from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?
² My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
    by night, but I find no rest.

³ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;

    you are the one Israel praises.

⁴ In you our ancestors put their trust;

    they trusted and you delivered them.

⁵ To you they cried out and were saved;

    in you they trusted and were not put to shame.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man,

    scorned by everyone, despised by the people.

⁷ All who see me mock me;

    they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

⁸ “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,

    “let the Lord rescue him.

Let him deliver him,

    since he delights in him.”

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb;

    you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast.

¹⁰ From birth I was cast on you;

    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹ Do not be far from me,

    for trouble is near

    and there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls surround me;

    strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

¹³ Roaring lions that tear their prey

    open their mouths wide against me.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water,

    and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart has turned to wax;

    it has melted within me.

¹⁵ My mouth is dried up like a potsherd,

    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;

    you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶ Dogs surround me,

    a pack of villains encircles me;

    they pierce my hands and my feet.

¹⁷ All my bones are on display;

    people stare and gloat over me.

¹⁸ They divide my clothes among them

    and cast lots for my garment.

¹⁹ But you, Lord, do not be far from me.

    You are my strength; come quickly to help me.

²⁰ Deliver me from the sword,

    my precious life from the power of the dogs.

²¹ Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;

    save me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²² I will declare your name to my people;

    in the assembly I will praise you.

²³ You who fear the Lord, praise him!

    All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!

    Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!

²⁴ For he has not despised or scorned

    the suffering of the afflicted one;

he has not hidden his face from him

    but has listened to his cry for help.

²⁵ From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;

    before those who fear you I will fulfill my vows.

²⁶ The poor will eat and be satisfied;

    those who seek the Lord will praise him—

    may your hearts live forever!

²⁷ All the ends of the earth

    will remember and turn to the Lord,

and all the families of the nations

    will bow down before him,

²⁸ for dominion belongs to the Lord

    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹ All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;

    all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—

    those who cannot keep themselves alive.

³⁰ Posterity will serve him;

    future generations will be told about the Lord.

³¹ They will proclaim his righteousness,

    declaring to a people yet unborn:

    He has done it!

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