¹¹ Saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

² Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

² Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

⁴⁹ The rest said, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to save him."

⁴⁶ About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lima{TR reads "lama" instead of "lima"} sabachthani?" That is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

⁴² "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

⁴³ He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

¹⁵ Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to you fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

²² "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

⁸ "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

²⁸ For Yahweh loves justice, And doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, But the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his children begging for bread.

¹³ Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

¹⁴ Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?