Why Have You Forsaken Me?

¹My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?

Far from my salvation are the words of my groaning.

²O my God, I call by day, but You do not answer;

And by night, but I have no rest.

³Yet You are holy,

Enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

⁴In You our fathers trusted;

They trusted and You rescued them.

⁵To 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.

⁷All who see me mock me;

They smack their lip, they wag their head, saying ,

⁸“Commit yourself to Yahweh; let Him rescue him;[#22:8 Or He committed himself; lit Roll]

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.

¹⁰Upon You I was cast from birth;[#22:10 Lit a womb]

You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

¹¹¶Be not far from me, for distress is near;[#22:11 Or trouble]

For there is none to help.

¹²Many bulls have surrounded me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

¹³They open wide their mouth at me,

As a lion that tears and roars.

¹⁴I am poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint;

My heart is like wax;

It is melted within me.

¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd,

And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;

And You lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me;

A band of evildoers has encompassed me;

They pierced my hands and my feet.

¹⁷I count all my bones.

They look, they stare at me;

¹⁸They 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.

²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,[#22:20 Or life]

My only life from the power of the dog.

²¹Save 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.

²³You who fear Yahweh, praise Him;

All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him,

And stand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel.

²⁴For 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.

²⁶The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;[#22:26 Or poor]

Those who seek Him will praise Yahweh.

May your heart live forever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh,

And all the families of the nations will worship before You.

²⁸For the kingdom is Yahweh’s

And He rules over the nations.

²⁹All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,[#22:29 Lit fat ones]

All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,

Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

³⁰Their seed will serve Him;

It will be recounted about the Lord to the coming generation.

³¹They will come and will declare His righteousness

To a people who will be born, that He has done it .