• Why Have You Forsaken Me?

  • 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my groaning.
  • 2 O my God, I call by day, but You do not answer; And by night, but I have no rest.
  • 3 Yet You are holy, Enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
  • 4 In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You rescued them.
  • 5 To You they cried out and were granted escape; In You they trusted and were not disappointed.
  • 6 But I am a worm and not a man, A reproach of men and despised by the people.
  • 7 All who see me mock me; They smack their lip, they wag their head, saying,
  • 8 “Commit yourself to Yahweh; let Him rescue him; Let Him deliver him, because He delights in him.”
  • 9 Yet You are He who brought me out of the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.
  • 10 Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb.
  • 11 Be not far from me, for distress is near; For there is none to help.
  • 12 Many bulls have surrounded me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
  • 13 They open wide their mouth at me, As a lion that tears and roars.
  • 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.
  • 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And You lay me in the dust of death.
  • 16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
  • 17 I count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
  • 18 They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.
  • 19 But You, O Yahweh, be not far off; O my Strength, hasten to my help.
  • 20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My only life from the power of the dog.
  • 21 Save me from the mouth of the lion; From the horns of the wild oxen You have answered me.
  • 22 I will surely recount Your name to my brothers; In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
  • 23 You who fear Yahweh, praise Him; All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him, And stand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel.
  • 24 For He has not despised and He has not abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; And He has not hidden His face from him; But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.
  • 25 Of You is my praise in the great assembly; I shall pay my vows before those who fear Him.
  • 26 The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise Yahweh. May your heart live forever!
  • 27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh, And all the families of the nations will worship before You.
  • 28 For the kingdom is Yahweh’s And He rules over the nations.
  • 29 All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship, All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him, Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.
  • 30 Their seed will serve Him; It will be recounted about the Lord to the coming generation.
  • 31 They will come and will declare His righteousness To a people who will be born, that He has done it.