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.