¹ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?¹²

1. Aijeleth...: or, the hind of the morning
2. helping...: Heb. my salvation

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.¹

1. am...: Heb. there is no silence to me

³ But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

⁵ They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

⁷ All they that see me mock me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,¹

1. shoot...: Heb. open

⁸ He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.¹²

1. He trusted...: Heb. He rolled himself on
2. seeing...: or, if he delight in

⁹ But thou art he that brought me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.¹

1. didst...: or, kept me in safety

¹⁰ I was cast upon thee from my birth: thou art my God from my mother’s womb.

¹¹ Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.¹

1. none...: Heb. not a helper

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me all round.

¹³ They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.¹

1. gaped...: Heb. opened their mouths against me

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.¹

1. out of...: or, sundered

¹⁵ 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 For dogs have surrounded me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷ I may number all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

¹⁸ They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

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

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.¹²

1. my darling: Heb. my only one
2. power: Heb. hand

²¹ Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

²² I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

²³ Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

²⁵ My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

²⁸ For the kingdom is the LORD’S: and he is the governor among the nations.

²⁹ All the prosperous of the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done this .