1. My ·God my ·God why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
2. My God I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
3. And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.
4. Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.
5. They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.
6. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the 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. Commit it to Jehovah--let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!
9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, 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 encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.
13. They gape upon me with their mouth, 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 become 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 palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
16. For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17. I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
18. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.