1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why so far from my salvation, from the words of my roaring?
2 My God, I call by day, and you do not answer; and by night, and there is no silence for me.
3 But you are holy, seated as King upon the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you set them free.
5 They cried out to you and escaped; they trusted in you and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of mankind and despised by the people.
7 All who see me ridicule me; they part their lips, they shake their head:
8 "He committed himself to the LORD; let him bring him to safety; let him rescue him, since he takes pleasure in him!"
9 Yet it was you who drew me from the womb, who made me feel secure at my mother's breasts.
10 Upon you I was thrown from the womb; since my mother's belly you have been my God.
11 Do not stay far from me, for distress is near, and there is no one to help.
12 Many bulls have encircled me; mighty ones of Bashan have hemmed me in.
13 They have opened their mouths against me, a lion tearing and roaring.
14 Like water I am poured out, and all my bones have come apart; my heart has become like wax, melted in the middle of my insides.
15 My strength has dried up like a shard of pottery, and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you set me down in the dust of death.
16 For dogs surround me; a company of evildoers encloses me; they pierced my hands and my feet.
17 I can number all my bones; they look and stare at me.
18 They share out my garments among themselves, and over my clothing they throw lots.
19 But you, O LORD, do not stay far away; my strength, hurry to help me!
20 Rescue my soul from the sword, my only life from the paw of the dog!
21 Save me from the lion's mouth; and from the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me.
22 I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the middle of the assembly I will praise you.
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him; all the seed of Jacob, honor him; be in awe of him, all the seed of Israel.
24 For he has not despised or loathed the misery of the afflicted one, and he has not hidden his face from him; when he cried to him for help, he listened.
25 My praise in the great assembly is from you; I will fulfill my vows in front of those who fear him.
26 The afflicted will eat and be filled; those who seek him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth will remember and return to the LORD, and all the clans of the nations will bow down before you.
28 For kingship is the LORD's, and he is ruler among the nations.
29 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and bowed down; before him all who go down to the dust will kneel, even the one who could not keep his soul alive.
30 Offspring will serve him; it will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation.
31 They will come and announce his righteousness to a people still to be born, that he has acted.