1. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
2. My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
3. But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel.
4. Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.
5. They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
6. But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
7. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,