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¹ My God, my God why have you forsaken me?
Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning?
² O my God, I call by day and you do not answer,
and by night but I have no rest.^[b]
3 Yet you are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
⁴ Our ancestors^[c] trusted you;
they trusted and you delivered them.
⁵ They cried to you and were saved;
they trusted you and were not ashamed.
⁶ But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by humankind and despised by people.
⁷ All who see me mock me.
They open wide their lips;
they shake the head, saying:
⁸ "He trusts Yahweh.^[d] Let him rescue him.
Let him deliver him because he delights in him."
⁹ Yet you took me from the belly;
you made me trust while on my mother's breasts.
¹⁰ On you I was cast from the womb.
From my mother's belly you have been my God.
¹¹ Do not be far from me
because trouble is near;
because there is no helper.
¹² Many bulls have encircled me;
mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me.
¹³ They open their mouth against me
like a lion tearing and roaring.
¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
it is melted within me.^[e]
15 My strength is dry like a potsherd,
and my tongue is sticking to my jaws;
and you have placed me in the dust of death.
¹⁶ Because dogs have surrounded me;
a gang of evildoers has encircled me.
Like the lion^[f] they are at my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones;
they gaze, they look at me.
¹⁸ They divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.^[g]
19 But you, O Yahweh, do not remain distant.
O my help, hasten to help me.
²⁰ Rescue my life from the sword,
my only life from the power of the dogs.^[h]
21 Save me from the mouth of the lion,
and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me.
²² I will tell your name to my brothers;
inside the assembly I will praise you.
²³ You who revere Yahweh, praise him!
Glorify him, all you seed of Jacob,
and be in awe of him, all you seed of Israel,
²⁴ because he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,
and has not hid his face from him;
but he listened to him when he cried for help.
²⁵ From you is my praise.
In the great assembly,
I will pay my vows before those who revere him.
²⁶ The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied.
Those who seek him will praise Yahweh.
May your^[i] heart live forever.
²⁷ All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to Yahweh.
All the families of the nations
will worship before you.
²⁸ Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh,
and he rules over the nations.
²⁹ All the healthy ones^[j] of the earth will eat and worship.
Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel,
even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
³⁰ Descendants^[k] will serve him.
Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation.
³¹ They will come and tell his saving^[l] deeds
to a people yet to be born, that he has done it.