^{1 Ref} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

^{2 Ref} O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

^{3 Ref} But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

^{4 Ref} Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

^{5 Ref} They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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

^{7 Ref} All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

^{8 Ref} He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

^{9 Ref} But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

^{10 Ref} I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

^{11 Ref} Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

^{12 Ref} Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

^{13 Ref} They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

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

^{15 Ref} My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

^{16 Ref} For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

^{17 Ref} I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

^{18 Ref} They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

^{19 Ref} But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

^{20 Ref} Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

^{21 Ref} Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.