1  My * ElGod, my * ElGod, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

2  My ° ElohimGod, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:

3  And thou art holy, thou that dwellest amid the praises of Israel.

4  Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.

6  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.

7  All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying:]

8 Commit it to Jehovah — let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!

9  But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.

10  I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my * ElGod from my mother's belly.

11  Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

12 Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.

13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

14  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

15  My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

16  For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

17  I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

19  But thou, Jehovah, be not far [from me]; O my strength, haste thee to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;

21  Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23 Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.

24  For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard.

25  My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26  The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

28  For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

30  A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31  They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [it].