^{1 Ref} <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

^{2 Ref} O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

^{3 Ref} But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.

^{4 Ref} Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

^{5 Ref} They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

^{6 Ref} But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

^{7 Ref} I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

^{8 Ref} He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

^{9 Ref} But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

^{10 Ref} I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

^{11 Ref} Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

^{12 Ref} A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

^{13 Ref} I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

^{14 Ref} I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

^{15 Ref} My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

^{16 Ref} Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

^{17 Ref} I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

^{18 Ref} They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.

^{19 Ref} Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

^{20 Ref} Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

^{21 Ref} Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.