^1aTo the choirmaster at Aijeleth Shahar.↑

A Psalm of David.

Why are you far from my salvation at my roaring words?

²O God of mine, I call by day,

But you do not answer,

And at night,

But I have no quietness.

³But you are holy,

You who dwell in the places of praise of Israel.

⁴In you our fathers trusted;

They trusted,

And you rescued them.

⁵They cried out to you,

And they were delivered.

They trusted in you

And were not ashamed.

⁶But I am a worm,

And not a man

– The reproach of men

And despised by the people.

⁷All those who see me, mock me.

They open their lips;

They shake their head,

And say,

⁸“He relied on the Lord

That he would rescue him.

Let him save him,

If he has pleasure in him.”

⁹For you brought me out of the womb;

From my mother's belly you caused me to trust in my mother's breasts.

¹⁰I was cast on you from the womb;

From my mother's belly

You have been my God.

¹¹Do not be far from me,

For adversity is nearby.

For there is no-one to help.

¹²Many bulls have surrounded me;

Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

¹³They gape at me,

Like a lion that tears and roars.

¹⁴I have been poured out like water,

And all my bones are out of joint.

My heart has become like wax;

It is melting in my inward parts.

¹⁵My strength has dried up like a shard,

And my tongue cleaves to my jaws.

You are about to reduce me to death's dust.

¹⁶For dogs have surrounded me;

The congregation of evildoers has hemmed me in,

Like a lion pinning down my hands and my feet.

They look on,

And stare at me.

¹⁹But do not you, O Lord, be far off.

Hasten, O my strength, as my help.

²⁰Deliver my life from the sword

– My most dear from the power of the dog.

²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion

And from the horns of buffaloes.

You have answered me.

²³Praise him, you who fear the Lord;

Honour him, all you seed of Jacob,

And revere him,

All you seed of Israel.

²⁴For he does not disdain or loathe the affliction of the afflicted man,

And he does not hide his face from him.

And when such a one cries out to him,

He hears it.

²⁵My praise is on account of you in a great convocation.

I will fulfil my vows

In the presence of those who fear him.

²⁶The meek will eat and be satisfied;

Those who seek him will praise the Lord.

May your heart live in perpetuity.

²⁷And all the ends of the land will remember

And return to the Lord,

And all the families of the Gentiles

Will worship before you.

²⁸For the kingdom is the Lord's,

And he is ruler over the Gentiles.

²⁹All the opulent of the earth will eat and worship;

All those who go down to the dust will bow down before him.

But he did not keep himself alive.

³⁰A seed will serve him;

It will be related concerning the Lord^* to a generation.

³¹They will come and declare his righteousness

To a people reborn,

For he will have accomplished this.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.1b ↔ Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34 ● v.17 ↔ John 19:36 ● v.18 ↔ Matthew 27:35, John 19:24 ● v.22 ↔ Hebrews 2:12.