⁰To the choirmaster, over the doe of the dawn. A psalm of David.

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me, so far from my deliverance, from the words of my roaring?

²My God, I call out by day, and you do not answer, and by night, and there is no silence for me.

³And you are holy, dwelling in the praises of Israel.

⁴In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵To you they cried out and escaped; in you they trusted and were not ashamed.

⁶And I am a worm and not a man, a reproach of humankind and despised by the people.

⁷All who see me mock me; they part the lip, they shake the head.

⁸Roll it to Yahweh; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him.

⁹For you burst me forth from the womb, making me trust upon the breasts of my mother.

¹⁰Upon you I was cast from the womb; from the belly of my mother you are my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me, for distress is near, for there is no helper.

¹²Many bulls have gone around me; the mighty ones of Bashan have encircled me.

¹³They have opened their mouth against me, a lion tearing and roaring.

¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones have separated; my heart has become like wax, melted in the midst of my inward parts.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue is made to cling to my jaws; and into the dust of death you set me.

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me; a company of evildoers have encircled me; like a lion, they are at my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I count all my bones; they look, they see me.

¹⁸They divide my garments among themselves, and over my clothing they cast a lot.

¹⁹And you, Yahweh, do not be far; my strength, hasten to my help.

²⁰Deliver my being from the sword, my only one from the hand of the dog.

²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild bulls you have answered me.

²²I will recount your name to my brothers; in the middle of the company I will praise you.

²³You who fear Yahweh, praise him; all the seed of Jacob, honor him, and be afraid of him, all the seed of Israel.

²⁴For he has not despised and has not loathed the suffering of the poor, and has not hidden his face from him; and when he cried out to him, he heard.

²⁵From you comes my praise in the great company; my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

²⁶The humble will eat and be satisfied; they will praise Yahweh, those who seek him; may your heart live for ever.

²⁷All the ends of the land will remember and turn back to Yahweh, and all the families of the nations will bow down before your face.

²⁸For the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he is ruling over the nations.

²⁹All the fat ones of the land have eaten and bowed down; before him will crouch all who go down to the dust, and his own being he has not kept alive.

³⁰Seed will serve him; it will be recounted concerning the Lord to the generation.

³¹They will come and declare his righteousness to a people about to be born, that he has done it.