1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my cry?
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 in the midst 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 am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.
7. All those that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8. Turn him over to the Lord, let him deliver him, let him save him, seeing he delighted in him.