¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? *and are so far from my cry and from the words of my distress?

²O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; *by night as well, but I find no rest.

³Yet you are the Holy One, *enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

⁴Our forefathers put their trust in you; *they trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵They cried out to you and were delivered; *they trusted in you and were not put to shame.

⁶But as for me, I am a worm and no man, *scorned by all and despised by the people.

⁷All who see me laugh me to scorn; *they curl their lips and wag their heads, saying,

⁸“He trusted in the Lord; let him deliver him; *let him rescue him, if he delights in him.”

⁹Yet you are he who took me out of the womb, *and kept me safe upon my mother’s breast.

¹⁰I have been entrusted to you ever since I was born; *you were my God when I was still in my mother’s womb.

¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near, *and there is none to help.

¹²Many young bulls encircle me; *strong bulls of Bashan surround me.

¹³They open wide their jaws at me, *like a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint; *my heart within my breast is melting wax.

¹⁵My mouth is dried out like a pot-sherd; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; *and you have laid me in the dust of the grave.