0For the choir director. To ‘The Doe of the Dawn.’ A psalm of David.
1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my groaning.
2My God, I call out by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but there is no rest for me.
3Yet you are holy, enthroned upon the praises of Israel.
4In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.
5To you they cried out and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.
6But I am a worm and not a man, a reproach of mankind and despised by the people.
7All who see me mock me; they open wide their lips, they shake the head:
8“Commit yourself to Yahweh—let him deliver him! Let him rescue him, since he delights in him!”
9For you are the one who drew me out of the womb, making me trust at my mother’s breasts.
10Upon you I was cast from birth; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
11Do not be far from me, for trouble is near, for there is no helper.
12Many bulls have surrounded me; the mighty ones of Bashan have encircled me.
13They open their mouths against me, a lion tearing and roaring.
14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed; my heart has become like wax, melted within my inmost parts.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you lay me down in the dust of death.
16For dogs have surrounded me; a company of evildoers has encircled me; they have pierced my hands and my feet.
17I can count all my bones; they look, they stare at me.
18They divide my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.
19But you, Yahweh, do not be far off; O my strength, hurry to my help!
20Deliver my life from the sword, my only one from the power of the dog.
21Save me from the mouth of the lion; and from the horns of wild oxen you have answered me.
22I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.
23You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you seed of Jacob, honor him! And stand in awe of him, all you seed of Israel!
24For he has not despised nor 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.
25From you comes my praise in the great assembly; my vows I will fulfill before those who fear him.
26The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your hearts live forever!
27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh, and all the families of the nations will bow down before you.
28For the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations.
29All the prosperous of the earth have eaten and bowed down; before him all who go down to the dust will kneel—even the one who cannot keep his own life alive.
30A seed will serve him; it will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.
31They will come and declare his righteousness to a people yet to be born, that he has acted.
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