Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

¹uMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so vfar from saving me, from the words of my wgroaning?

²O my God, I cry by xday, but you do not answer,

and by night, but I find no rest.

³Yet you are yholy,

zenthroned on athe praises1 of Israel.

⁴In you our fathers trusted;

they trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵To you they bcried and were rescued;

in you they ctrusted and were not put to shame.

⁶But I am da worm and not a man,

escorned by mankind and fdespised by the people.

⁷All who see me gmock me;

they make mouths at me; they hwag their heads;

⁸i“He trusts in the Lord; let him jdeliver him;

let him rescue him, for he kdelights in him!”

⁹Yet you are he who ltook me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.

¹⁰On you was I cast from my birth,

and from mmy mother's womb you have been my God.

¹¹Be not nfar from me,

for trouble is near,

and there is onone to help.

¹²Many bulls encompass me;

pstrong bulls of qBashan surround me;

¹³they ropen wide their mouths at me,

like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹⁴I am spoured out like water,

and all my bones are tout of joint;

my uheart is like vwax;

it is melted within my breast;

¹⁵my strength is wdried up like a potsherd,

and my xtongue sticks to my jaws;

you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶For ydogs encompass me;

a company of evildoers zencircles me;

they have apierced my hands and feet2—

¹⁷I can count all my bones—

they bstare and gloat over me;

¹⁸cthey divide my garments among them,

and for my clothing they cast lots.

¹⁹But you, O Lord, ndo not be far off!

O you my help, dcome quickly to my aid!

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,

my precious life from the power of ethe dog!

²¹Save me from fthe mouth of the lion!

You have rescued3 me from the horns of gthe wild oxen!

²²hI will tell of your name to my ibrothers;

in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

²³You who jfear the Lord, praise him!

All you offspring of Jacob, kglorify him,

and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred

the affliction of lthe afflicted,

and he has not mhidden his face from him,

but has heard, when he ncried to him.

²⁵From you comes my praise in the great ocongregation;

my pvows I will qperform before those who fear him.

²⁶rThe afflicted4 shall seat and be satisfied;

those who seek him shall praise the Lord!

May your hearts tlive forever!

²⁷All uthe ends of the earth shall remember

and turn to the Lord,

and all vthe families of the nations

shall worship before you.

²⁸For wkingship belongs to the Lord,

and he rules over the nations.

²⁹All xthe prosperous of the earth eat and worship;

before him shall ybow all who go down to the dust,

even the one who could not zkeep himself alive.

³⁰Posterity shall serve him;

it shall be told of the Lord to the coming ageneration;

³¹they shall bcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet cunborn,

that he has done it.