1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Why art thou so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?

2 O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer;

and by night, but find no rest.

3 Yet thou art holy,

enthroned on the praises of Israel.

4 In thee our fathers trusted;

they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5 To thee they cried, and were saved;

in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a worm, and no man;

scorned by men, and despised by the people.