David prayeth in great distress, yet he praiseth God. (To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.)

¹⁾My God, why hast thou forsaken me? My God, hear the words of my roaring; thou art far from helping me.

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

³⁾But thou art holy that inhabitest the heavens; thou art worthy of the praises of Israel.

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

⁵⁾They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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

⁷⁾All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

⁸⁾He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

⁹⁾But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

¹⁰⁾I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou wast my God from my mother's breasts.

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

¹²⁾Many armies have compassed me; strong armies of Bashan have beset me around.

¹³⁾They gaped upon me with their mouths, like a ravening and a roaring lion.

¹⁴⁾I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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 compassed me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷⁾I may tell 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.

²¹⁾Save me from the lion's mouth, for thou hast heard me speak from the secret places of the wilderness, through the horns of the unicorns.

²²⁾I will declare thy name unto 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 unto 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 forever.

²⁷⁾All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto 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 they that be fat upon 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 unto a people that shall be born, what he hath done.