Why Have You Forsaken Me?
For the choir director. According to Aijeleth Hashshahar. A Psalm of David.
aMy God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
bFar from my salvation are the words of my cgroaning.
2 O my God, I acall by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I have no rest.
3 Yet aYou are holy,
Enthroned upon bthe praises of Israel.
4 In You our fathers atrusted;
They trusted and You brescued them.
5 To You they cried out and were granted escape;
aIn You they trusted and were not disappointed.
6 But I am a aworm and not a man,
A breproach of men and cdespised by the people.
7 All who see me amock me;
They smack their lip, they bwag their head, saying,
8 “Commit yourself to Yahweh; alet Him rescue him;
Let Him deliver him, because He delights in him.”
9 Yet You are He who abrought me out of the womb;
You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.
10 Upon You I was cast afrom birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.
11 aBe not far from me, for distress is near;
For there is bnone to help.
12 Many abulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of bBashan have encircled me.
13 They aopen wide their mouth at me,
As a blion that tears and roars.
14 I am apoured out like water,
And all my bbones are out of joint;
My cheart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
15 My astrength is dried up like a potsherd,
And bmy tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You clay me in the dust of death.
16 For adogs have surrounded me;
A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
They bpierced my hands and my feet.
17 I count all my bones.
aThey look, they stare at me;
18 They adivide my garments among them,
And for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But You, O Yahweh, abe not far off;
O my Strength, bhasten to my help.
20 Deliver my soul from athe sword,
My bonly life from the power of the dog.
21 Save me from the mouth of the alion;
From the horns of the bwild oxen You chave answered me.
22 I will surely arecount Your name to my brothers;
In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
23 aYou who fear Yahweh, praise Him;
All you seed of Jacob, bglorify Him,
And cstand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel.
24 For He has anot despised and He has not abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
And He has not bhidden His face from him;
But cwhen he cried to Him for help, He heard.
25 Of You is amy praise in the great assembly;
I shall bpay my vows before those who fear Him.
26 The afflicted will eat and abe satisfied;
Those who seek Him will bpraise Yahweh.
May your cheart live forever!
27 All the aends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh,
And all the bfamilies of the nations will worship before You.
28 For the akingdom is Yahweh’s
And He brules over the nations.
29 All the aprosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who bgo down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who ccannot keep his soul alive.
30 aTheir seed will serve Him;
It will be recounted about the Lord to bthe coming generation.
31 They will come and awill declare His righteousness
To a people bwho will be born, that He has done it.