1  uMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so vfar from saving me, from the words of my wgroaning?

2  O my God, I cry by xday, but you do not answer,

and by night, but I find no rest.

3  Yet you are yholy,

zenthroned on athe praises1 of Israel.

4  In you our fathers trusted;

they trusted, and you delivered them.

5  To you they bcried and were rescued;

in you they ctrusted and were not put to shame.

6  But I am da worm and not a man,

escorned by mankind and fdespised by the people.

7  All who see me gmock me;

they make mouths at me; they hwag their heads;

8  i“He trusts in the Lord; let him jdeliver him;

let him rescue him, for he kdelights in him!”

9  Yet you are he who ltook me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

10  On you was I cast from my birth,

and from mmy mother’s womb you have been my God.

11  Be not nfar from me,

for trouble is near,

and there is onone to help.

12  Many bulls encompass me;

pstrong bulls of qBashan surround me;

13  they ropen wide their mouths at me,

like a ravening and roaring lion.

14  I am spoured out like water,

and all my bones are tout of joint;

my uheart is like vwax;

it is melted within my breast;

15  my strength is wdried up like a potsherd,

and my xtongue sticks to my jaws;

you lay me in the dust of death.

16  For ydogs encompass me;

a company of evildoers zencircles me;

they have apierced my hands and feet2—

17  I can count all my bones—

they bstare and gloat over me;

18  cthey divide my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.

19  But you, O Lord, ndo not be far off!

O you my help, dcome quickly to my aid!

20  Deliver my soul from the sword,

my precious life from the power of ethe dog!

21  Save me from fthe mouth of the lion!

You have rescued3 me from the horns of gthe wild oxen!