2 O God, my God, attend to me: why hast thou forsaken me?

The account of my transgressions is far from my salvation.

3 O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear:

And by night, and it shall not be accounted for folly to me.

4 But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary.

5 Our fathers hoped in thee;

They hoped, and thou didst deliver them.

6 They cried to thee, and were saved:

They hoped in thee, and were not ashamed.

7 But I am a worm, and not a man;

A reproach of men, and scorn of the people.

8 All that saw me mocked me:

They spoke with their lips, they shook the head, saying,

9 He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him,

Let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him.

10 For thou art he that drew me out of the womb;

My hope from my mother’s breasts.

11 I was cast on thee from the womb:

Thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

12 Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near;

For there is no helper.

13 Many bullocks have compassed me:

Fat bulls have beset me round.

14 They have opened their mouth against me,

As a ravening and roaring lion.

15 I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are loosened:

My heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax.

16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd;

And my tongue is glued to my throat;

And thou hast brought me down to the dust of death.

17 For many dogs have compassed me:

The assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round:

They pierced my hands and my feet.

18 They counted all my bones;

And they observed and looked upon me.

19 They parted my garments among themselves,

And cast lots upon my raiment.

20 But thou, O Lord, remove not my help afar off:

Be ready for mine aid.

21 Deliver my soul from the sword;

My only begotten one from the power of the dog.

22 Save me from the lion’s mouth;

And regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

23 I will declare thy name to my brethren:

In the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee.

24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him;

All ye seed of Jacob, glorify him:

Let all the seed of Israel fear him.

25 For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor;

Nor turned away his face from me;

But when I cried to him, he heard me.

26 My praise is of thee in the great congregation:

I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

27 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;

And they shall praise the Lord that seek him:

Their heart shall live forever.

28 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord:

And all the kindred of the nations shall worship before him.

29 For the kingdom is the Lord’s;

And he is the governor of the nations.

30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshiped:

All that go down to the earth shall fall down before him:

My soul also lives to him.

31 And my seed shall serve him:

The generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord.

32 And they shall report his righteousness

To the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.