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?
² O my God,
I cry in the daytime,
but thou hearest not;
and in the night season,
and am not silent.
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 unto 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 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 art my God from my mother's belly.
¹¹ Be not far from me;
for trouble is near;
for there is none to help.
¹² Many bulls have compassed me:
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
¹³ They gaped upon me with their mouths,
as 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 bought me into the dust of death.
¹⁶ For dogs have compassed me:
the assembly of the wicked have inclosed 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 from 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 for ever.
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,
that he hath done this.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]