¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
My groaning does nothing to save me.
² My God, I call out by day, but you do not answer.
I call out by night, but there is no relief for me. ^[2]

³ Yet you are seated as the Holy One, praised by Israel.
⁴ In you our fathers trusted.
They trusted and you delivered them.
⁵ They cried out to you, and they were rescued.
They trusted in you, and they were not disappointed.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock me. They sneer.
They shake their heads.
⁸ They say, “Trust in the Lord.” ^[3]
“Let the Lord deliver him.
Let him rescue him, if he delights in him.” ^[4]

⁹ But you are the one who brought me out of the belly.
You made me trust when I was at my mother’s breasts.
¹⁰ I was cast on you from the womb.
From the belly of my mother you have been my God.
¹¹ Do not be distant from me, for distress is near,
and there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls surround me.
Strong bulls from Bashan encircle me.
¹³ Enemies open their mouths wide against me,
like a lion that tears its prey and roars.
¹⁴ Like water I am poured out.
All my bones are pulled apart.
My heart has become like wax.
It has melted in the middle of my chest.
¹⁵ My strength is dried up like broken pottery,
and my tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth.
You lay me in the dust of death.
¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me.
A band of evil men has encircled me.
They have pierced ^[5] my hands and my feet.
¹⁷ I can count all my bones.
They stare and gloat over me.
¹⁸ They divide my garments among them.
For my clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹ But you, O Lord, do not be distant.
O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
²⁰ Deliver my life from the sword,
my only life from the power of the dog.
²¹ Save me from the mouth of the lion.
From the horns of the wild oxen you have answered me. ^[6]