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.
9. But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou hast made me wait upon thee since I was upon my mother’s breasts.