1    My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so
               far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
          2    O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and
               in the night season, and am not silent.
          3    But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
               Israel.
          4    Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
               deliver them.
          5    They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in
               thee, and were not confounded.
          6    But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and 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    He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him
               deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
          9    But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst
               make me hope when I was 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 compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have
               beset me round.
          13   They gaped upon me with their mouths, 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 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 jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust
               of death.
          16   For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have
               inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
          17   I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
          18   They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my
               vesture.
          19   But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste
               thee to help me.
          20   Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of
               the dog.
          21   Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from
               the horns of the unicorns.
          22   I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of
               the congregation will I praise thee.
          23   Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob,
               glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
          24   For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the
               afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when
               he cried unto him, he heard.
          25   My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will
               pay my vows before them that fear him.
          26   The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the
               LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
          27   All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the
               LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship
               before thee.
          28   For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among
               the nations.
          29   All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all
               they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none
               can keep alive his own soul.
          30   A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord
               for a generation.
          31   They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a
               people that shall be born, that he hath done this.