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¹ MY God, my God, why hast thou let me to live? and yet thou hast delayed my salvation from me, because of the words of my folly.² O my God, I call thee in the daytime but thou answerest me not; and in the night season thou abidest not with me.³ For thou art holy, and Israel dwells under thy glory.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 not a man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.⁷ All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn; they shoot out with their lips, they shake their heads, saying,⁸ He trusted in the LORD; let the LORD deliver him; let him save him, if he be delighted in him.⁹ For thou art my trust since I came out of the womb, and my hope since I was upon my mothers breasts.¹⁰ I was put under thy care from the womb; thou art my God from my mothers belly.

¹¹ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.¹² Many bulls have surrounded me: strong bulls of Bashan have besieged me.¹³ Their mouths snarl against me, as a ravening and roaring lion.¹⁴ I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is melted like wax, and my bowels are wasted in the midst of me.¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast thrown me into the dust of death.¹⁶ For the vicious have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.¹⁷ My bones ached with pain; they looked and stared upon me.¹⁸ They parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.¹⁹ But, O LORD, be not thou far from me; O God, O God, abide to help me.²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the hand of the vicious.²¹ Save me from the lions mouth; save my meekness from the haughty,

²² That I may declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.²³ You that revere the LORD, praise him; all you the offspring of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants of Israel.²⁴ For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor; neither has he turned away his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard him.²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation; I will fulfil my vows before them that worship him.²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the LORD that seek him; their hearts shall live for ever.²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall worship before thee.²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORDS; he is the governor over the Gentiles.²⁹ All they that are hungry upon earth shall eat and worship before the LORD; all they that are buried shall kneel before him; my soul is alive to him.³⁰ An offspring shall serve him; the generations thereof shall proclaim the LORD.³¹ They shall come and declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, and tell that which the LORD has done.