1. My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?
2. O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest.
3. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
4. Our ancestors trusted you; they trusted and you delivered them.
5. They cried to you and were saved; they trusted you and were not ashamed.
6. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.
7. All who see me mock me. They open wide their lips; they shake the head, saying:
8. “He trusts Yahweh. Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him.”
9. Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother’s breasts.
10. On you I was cast from the womb. From my mother’s belly you have been my God.
11. Do not be far from me because trouble is near; because there is no helper.
12. Many bulls have encircled me; mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.
13. They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring.