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¹ My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why] art thou so farre from my health, and from the wordes of my complaynt?² O my God I crye all the day tyme, and in the night season, and I ceasse not: but thou hearest not.³ And yet thou most holy: sittest to receaue the prayers of Israel.⁴ Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, & thou didst deliuer them.⁵ They called vpon thee, and they were helped: they did put their trust in thee, and they were not confounded.⁶ But as for me I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of men, and an outcast of the people.⁷ All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head [at me.]⁸ [Saying] he referreth [all] to God, [loking that God] wyll deliuer him [and] rescue him: for he delighteth only in him.⁹ But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.¹⁰ I haue ben left vnto thee euer since I was borne: thou art my God euen from my mothers wombe.

¹¹ O go not far fro me, for trouble is harde at hande: and there is none to helpe me.¹² Many oxen are come about me: fat [bulles] of Bashan close me in on euery syde.¹³ They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.¹⁴ I am as [it were] into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels.¹⁵ My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.¹⁶ For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, ¹⁷ I may tell all my bones. They stande staring & gasing vpon me:¹⁸ they part my garmentes among them, and they cast lottes vpon my vesture.¹⁹ But be not thou farre from me O God: thou art my strength, make haste to helpe me.²⁰ Delyuer my soule from the sworde: and my dearlyng from the dogges pawes.²¹ Saue me from the Lions mouth: delyuer me from the hornes of the Unicornes.

²² I wyll declare thy name vnto my brethren: I wyll prayse thee in the middest of the congregation.²³ [Saying] prayse ye God ye that feare hym: glorifie hym all ye of the seede of Iacob, and stande in awe of hym all ye of the seede of Israel.²⁴ For he hath not dispised nor abhorred the affliction of the poore: he hath not hyd his face from hym, but he hearde hym when he cryed vnto hym.²⁵ My prayse shalbe of thee in the great congregation: I wyll perfourme my vowes in the syght of them that feare hym.²⁶ The poore shall eate, and be satisfied: they that seeke after God shall prayse hym, your heart shall lyue for euer.²⁷ All the endes of the worlde shall remember them selues and be turned vnto God: and all the kinredes of the nations shall worshyp before thy face.²⁸ For the kingdome is Gods: and he is the gouernour ouer the nations.²⁹ All such as be fat vpon the earth shall eate and worshyp: all they that go downe [in] to the dust shall knele before hym, although he preserued not his owne lyfe.³⁰ The posteritie shall serue hym: they shalbe counted vnto the Lorde for a generation.³¹ They wyll come and declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shalbe borne: for he hath done it.