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Why Have You Forsaken Me?

^1 (C1)My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
^(F1)(C2)Far from my salvation are the words of my ^(F2)(C3)groaning.

² O my God, I ^(C1)call by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but ^(F1)I have no rest.

³ Yet ^(C1)You are holy,
^(F1)Enthroned upon ^(C2)the praises of Israel.

⁴ In You our fathers ^(C1)trusted;
They trusted and You ^(C2)rescued them.

⁵ To You they cried out and were granted escape;
^(C1)In You they trusted and were not ^(F1)disappointed.

⁶ But I am a ^(C1)worm and not a man,
A ^(C2)reproach of men and ^(C3)despised by the people.

⁷ All who see me ^(C1)mock me;
They ^(F1)smack their lip, they ^(C2)wag their head, saying,

⁸ "^(F1)Commit yourself to Yahweh; ^(C1)let Him rescue him;
Let Him deliver him, because He delights in him."

⁹ Yet You are He who ^(C1)brought me out of the womb;
You made me trust when upon my mother's breasts.

¹⁰ Upon You I was cast ^(C1)from ^(F1)birth;
You have been my God from my mother's womb.

^11 (C1)Be not far from me, for ^(F1)distress is near;
For there is ^(C2)none to help.

¹² Many ^(C1)bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of ^(C2)Bashan have encircled me.

¹³ They ^(C1)open wide their mouth at me,
As a ^(C2)lion that tears and roars.

¹⁴ I am ^(C1)poured out like water,
And all my ^(C2)bones are out of joint;
My ^(C3)heart is like wax;
It is melted within ^(F1)me.

¹⁵ My ^(C1)strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And ^(C2)my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You ^(C3)lay me ^(F1)in the dust of death.

¹⁶ For ^(C1)dogs have surrounded me;
^(F1)A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
^(F2)They ^(C2)pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷ I count all my bones.
^(C1)They look, they stare at me;

¹⁸ They ^(C1)divide my garments among them,
And for my clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹ But You, O Yahweh, ^(C1)be not far off;
O my Strength, ^(C2)hasten to my help.

²⁰ Deliver my ^(F1)soul from ^(C1)the sword,
My ^(C2)only life from the ^(F2)power of the dog.

²¹ Save me from the mouth of the ^(C1)lion;
From the horns of the ^(C2)wild oxen You ^(C3)have answered me.

²² I will surely ^(C1)recount Your name to my brothers;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

^23 (C1)You who fear Yahweh, praise Him;
All you seed of Jacob, ^(C2)glorify Him,
And ^(C3)stand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel.

²⁴ For He has ^(C1)not despised and He has not abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
And He has not ^(C2)hidden His face from him;
But ^(C3)when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

²⁵ Of You is ^(C1)my praise in the great assembly;
I shall ^(C2)pay my vows before those who fear Him.

²⁶ The ^(F1)afflicted will eat and ^(C1)be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will ^(C2)praise Yahweh.
May your ^(C3)heart live forever!

²⁷ All the ^(C1)ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh,
And all the ^(C2)families of the nations will worship before ^(F1)You.

²⁸ For the ^(C1)kingdom is Yahweh's
And He ^(C2)rules over the nations.

²⁹ All the ^(F1)(C1)prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who ^(C2)go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who ^(F2)(C3)cannot keep his soul alive.

^30 (C1)Their seed will serve Him;
It will be recounted about the Lord to ^(C2)the coming generation.

³¹ They will come and ^(C1)will declare His righteousness
To a people ^(C2)who will be born, that He has done it.